Word: socials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...paper also remarks editorially: "The Rocky Mountain Harvard Club, which was organized prior to the first annual dinner of the Association, will surely exert an influence for good in the New West. Its first Banquet was a success in every way - a delightful 'spread,' and particularly entertaining in the social speeches which followed...
...letter from Yale, published in a New York paper, contains a very able contradiction of the general belief that college life is degenerating into a life of athletics, impiety, and social dissipation. The same paper had previously printed a disparaging account of Yale's endeavors to get a new gymnasium and to have an earlier chapel hour, of her holding class Germans, of her crew's having a trainer, of her indulging in chess clubs, and of her having a Glee Club that was to give a concert. We do not ourselves see, in any one of the matters above...
...bearing on our system of voluntary attendance at recitations - voluntary if we feel like going. Whether or not it is right to offer these guileful petitions for our prayer cuts, and, as it were, to fight the devil with fire, we are not prepared to say. It is a social problem upon the solution of which we shall not enter until the marks are out in Ethics nineteen: but truly is not the cause and effect as plainly seen as in the Nihilism of Russia, or the Home Rulism in England? Coercion must be stopped, else the millenium never will...
...country one finds himself, he is never at a loss for polite conversation if he has read the latest magazines. And it need not be empty talk, to discuss some striking character of Miss Woolson's or Mr. Howell's, to disagree over an article on the social question, to wonder at the latest scientific discovery. It is not strange that the "Popular Science Monthly" should be so much read at Harvard. It is almost the only college where science courses are numerous and thorough. The political and philosophical reviews have many readers here: the fine courses in Political Economy...
...advice to the willing to learn is always a pleasant task. And it becomes additionally so when the advice is of a pleasant nature. We wish to call the attention of the freshmen to the society relations of the university. The prurience which some men exhibit in seeking social honors is simply ludicious, while others are just as backward and slow to make acquaintances. Some of us seem to hold up before us as the highest prize of college life admission to some one society. And we are too often led to look upon society relations purely from the club...