Word: socials
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members of Political Economy 2 who intend to order Cary's "Social Science," in 3 vols., should sign before...
...first method of work is not suited to its department; and its plan is, first, to superintend a course of lectures that shall stimulate an interest in classical subjects; and, secondly, to bring about an acquaintance and an interchange of experience between those interested in Philology, by having social meetings at different times during the year. Work of this sort is all that can be done in departments where the regular courses of lectures practically exhaust the subjects of study...
...this society, that men who can sing have sometimes failed to be chosen members. Then, coming to the question of editorships, it is a notorious fact that the editorial boards of our college papers too often include men who seem to have been elected for their "ton" and social position only. "Ornamental editors" are by no means an anomaly, and we doubt, if the facts, in this instance, at least, can ever be successfully disproved, even by the editors of the Crimson...
...that the hobbledehoy twaddle about the dangers of this co-education were stopped. It is not now an open question; Cambridge and Oxford settled it some time ago. At these universities young women live in their own "halls" under the guardianship of wise and good women of the highest social standing. They are taken to the lecture rooms by their matron guides, and when the lecture is over are taken back to the hall without any unpleasant or degrading consequences. The mere listening in the same room with young men to the eloquent and profound discourse of a professor...
...English system involves no social meeting whatever with the male students, and the admirable results in the intellectual training of women, and the consequent improvement of the schools wherein many become teachers, have already been incalculable. In the face of the good so easily and smoothly accomplished, there is no whisper of disapproval or even satire in England. Harvard is wealthy, and could have well afforded to follow the dignified and liberal example of the English universities. Instead of that she has only permitted women students to halt at her back door, allowing her professors to assume burdens which...