Word: socials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...from his own country. The club is proving a boon to the foreigners at Michigan, who find in it an organization upon which they can rely for help. And to the "clubable" spirits among them, very seldom admitted to other clubs or fraternities, it offers a pleasant and helpful social centre. A similar club at Cornell has been very successful and occupies an excellent position in the social life of the college...
...narrative skill that at the critical moment he does not present his leaf-clad personages vividly. Occasionally,--for example, when dwelling upon the physical peculiarities of middle age,--he comes perilously near coarseness. What is even worse, he seems to take a sophomoric delight in degenerate aspects of social life, and to look with smiling tolerance upon vices which a conscientious artist would lash with indignant satire...
...puppets after the play is over. The incongruity of the masquerade of dialect words and phra67ses in the most exquisite of literary forms humorously suggests the world of the marionettes, and the perfect equality and fraternity that prevail in the box symbolize the artificiality of social distinctions. This point is obscured, however, by the simile "like slaughtered sheep"; nor is it, strictly speaking, the "show" that brings beggars "astraddle of the guys what's got the dough." I question also whether the dialect is used quite consistently throughout. In any case, it seems regrettable that the phrase "bunched up" should...
...third meeting of the Graduate Club will be held in the Common Room, Conant Hall, at 8 o'clock this evening. Professor W. James '69 will address the club on the "Social Responsibility of the Educated Class...
...Robins is a graduate of the law department of Columbian University, Washington, and for two years, after his graduation practiced law in San Francisco. Since 1904 he has been a lecturer in sociology in the University of Chicago. He is connected with a number of charitable and social service organizations and has given the following addresses, which have been published: "What Constitutes a Model Municipal Lodging House," "Side Lights on Graft and Grafters," and "Homeless Men an Industrial Product...