Word: socials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...November number of Lippincotts Magazine contains the prize essay, No. 8, "Social Life at Amherst College." The author is R. S. Rounds...
Notice is hereby given of the foundation, by the gift of Hon. Robert Treat Paine, of the class of 1855 of Harvard College, of the Robert fret Paine Fellowship of Social Science. This fellowship may be awarded to a graduate of any department of this University, wishing to study either at home or abroad the ethical problems of society, and the efforts of legislation, government administration, and private philanthropy, to ameliorate the lot of the masses of mankind. The annual income of this fellowship will be $500. Appointments are to be made for the term of one academic year...
...negative Mr. Chenoweth declared that the jury system was liable to great abuses and that the chief reason the anarchists were sentenced was because the people of Chicago thought the blood of the murdered policemen called for vengeance. They only meant to forestall a change in the present social state of things, and we must beware of making martyrs of them by persecution. The hope was expressed that the Anglo-Saxon love of fair play would assert itself...
...York Harvard Club opened last week with a very full social meeting more than 200 being present...
...much nearer approximation to the conditions that obtain at English universities, where the friends that an undergraduates has are largely those whose acceptance he made at one or another of the great public schools. The conclusion that might be drawn from this change is that, so far as social confederations are concerned, a prominence and importance have been given to the preparatory schools in New England that they did not in other days possess.-Boston Herald...