Word: socials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...truly sorry to hear of the dissolution of the Everett Athenaeum. This society, since its formation in 1868, has always been composed of studious, industrious men, and even if it has not sustained its originally literary character, yet it has served to bring together in a pleasant, social way, those members of each succeeding sophomore class, who could certainly have sustained it as well as did their predecessors. We trust that the plan now under consideration for forming a new literary society may be eminently successful, and that we shall soon hear that the Everett Athenaeum is flourishing again under...
...last number of Lippincott's Magazine is a very interesting article by Mr. Rounds, Amherst, '87, on the social life at that college. The difference in the college life of an Amherst student and that of a Harvard student is very noticeable, as one reads the essay. The writer begins with an account of the daily life of an average student, following him through a Wednesday in term time, and leaving him in the evening seated with some friends at a table in "Frank's" the restaurant patronized by the college men, which must correspond somewhat to our "Adam...
...convenience and elegance. Besides the secret lodge-room, the parlors and reading-room, each house has accommodations for from ten to eighteen students. They are really college homes; and, forming as they do, the recognized centres of society life, they are of the utmost importance as giving to the social life of the college its distinctive tone. Most society men take rooms in these houses for the last two or three years of their course...
...writer then mentions at length the social life of the students in the towns, there being very little opportunity for good society save in the families of the professors. "I must not omit one important social factor. Seven miles distant, across the valley, in Northampton, is Smith College, one of the leading woman's colleges in the East, nad a factor not to be ignored in any problem that concerns Amherst. Very few men go through collge without making their bow at Smith at least once, and about a fifth call there frequently. A reception in the winter, a concert...
...communication from "Thorg" in yesterday's issue gave its readers to understand that the evils of Harvard life lying in the social root were ineradicable because of our proximity to a large city. This idea is unique, and, we believe, has never been advanced before; but it is not the relty of the statement, but the absuldity contained in it, which we wish to consider. To say that there is no remedy for the snobbishness manifest in so much of our life here is to admit more than any one ought who feels that he has life and vigor...