Word: socials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...incentive to underhanded tricks. When a student is placed on his honor, and and when betrayal of that trust, means dishonor and disrepute among his fellows, he is under stronger guard than when a proctor is stationed over him. A student who would crib under such circumstances, deserves social ostracism by students, and public expulsion by the faculty. If a strong sentiment could be established in college supporting an opinion such as the above, in regard to cribbing when men are allowed full liberty, the removal of proctors from the examination rooms could be attended by no danger. We believe...
After discussing the subject in its political, social, and moral and religious aspects, the same writer continues: 'It may be said, 'Why criticise the workings of one and the same principle in these different departments, without suggesting a remedy?' It would be almost impossible to name a remedy that should have any immediate effect in the cases mentioned. It must be a long time before renewed vitality creeps into the nerves and muscles of a patient who is 'run down.' But there is one department where a change of present policy might have much direct effect upon the life...
...Science vs. Sympathy in the "Social Question...
...pretend to be what one is not is dishonest as well as ill-bred. Does the defender of Anglomania think social dishonesty "betters" Americans. I am generous enough to believe he does not. When we see Anglomaniacs imitating the splendid intellectual life of Gladstone, the magnificent commonsense of Bright, the brilliant shrewdness of Beaconsfield, the CRIMSON, I take it, will not rebuke the tendency. For obvious reasons, however, it will be too much to expect from Anglomaniacs...
...only silly; it is unwise. I venture the assertion, based upon some knowledge of what I am talking about, that the most ardent imitators (who are always at a respectful distance) of English Society manners, are the ones sure to be most hopelessly left on application for entree to social life in England. In England the flattery of imitation is left to serving people; when it spreads to other classes, it becomes the subserviency of fools. Such is the tacit English verdict at all events...