Word: socials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cutter, the ex-secretary of the Association. This lamented occurrence led to the postponement of the dinner from Jan. 1st, and accounts for the almost total absence of undergraduates, as college opened on the second instant. It is due to the gentlemen in charge to say that the enviable social reputation of Buffalo was fully sustained...
...their life quite unconsciously. A few of us are cheats, and betray it in all that we do. But notwithstanding such exceptions, is it true that the spirit of Harvard fosters a loose morality and tends to elevate the evil above the good? It is true that our "social gatherings" are better attended than our prayer meetings, that societies offer more attractions than the chapel, that the Harvard spy-glass is not unknown in Boston theatres at certain seasons of the year, and that the writings of certain authors are a little more closely thumbed than the books of Miss...
...increased by listening to lectures by different men of varying opinions." The exchange of professors, however, the writer concludes, is impracticable. "A constant change" he says, "might impede or even prevent the original researches of many professors," besides putting them to great inconvenience by change of residence and social relations. "But," he continues, "this same object, viz., the extension of the independent judgment of the students, might be furthered in a slightly different manner. When we cannot conveniently move the professors, why should we not move the students? The average student, having no family, might almost as well spend...
There never has been a time, in the history of our country at least, when the evidences of a great social revolution were so plain as at present. The laboring classes are arousing themselves from the lethargy in which they have rested for the last century. Cooperation, distributive and industrial, is the form which this movement is taking. The dangers of misdirected energy on the part of the agitators are grave, and, as Mr. Brooks said in one of his lectures last term, the only way of averting them is by the education of the masses on this question...
...number. Nothing goes on in or out of the university that is not immediately made known at the Nations. They take the place of the college paper in the student's daily life. Connected also with the clubs are library rooms and libraries, and various other rooms devoted to social purposes. The size and importance of the libraries depend, as does the building, on the wealth of the Nation, some of them containing several thousand volumes...