Word: socials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...object shall be to promote comradeship among present and past students and officers of Harvard University, by providing at Cambridge a suitable Club House for social purposes...
About the year 1880 there came a need at Harvard for a new social system. The old regime in which the class was the unit, consisted of several societies, the members of which were taken from but one class. Until 1880 the Senior class had been compact enough to act as the controlling body in undergraduate life. But in the years from 1850 to 1880, the classes had been increasing in size, until it became no longer possible for a man to be acquainted with all his classmates. At the same time another cause, the growth of the elective system...
...original founders however realized the importance of this plan for bringing unity into social life at Harvard, and they organized a committee of graduates to provide if possible for a building for the University Club. Interest in their project reached its height in 1895 and plans were made for a general canvass to raise $200,000 from Harvard men. But owing to the financial crisis of 1896, the committee reluctantly gave up their plan, appealing to individual graduates to give the necessary funds. In 1898 it was suggested that the University Club should be given as a memorial...
...justice revolts, and from them, through the medium of his writings, has he sought to free here. The Roman law as it is manifested and re-imbodied in the Napoleonic code, appears to him unjust. He would like to emancipate women entirely, and he desires also to have French social legislation framed after the pattern of the American laws...
...most clever dramatic writer that we can imagine. He attained success in all branches of literature. His "Odette" (1881) and "Georgette" (1885) are essays of comedies with a thesis. M. Sardou has written even "operettes," "bouffes," and in "Le Roi Carotte," he tried poetry. He also treated of social studies. Quite recently he took the opportunity offered by the literary napoleonism of new fashion in France, to give us his curious innovation of "Madame Sans Gene...