Word: socials
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...read with some interest your editorial of April 1, in which apropos of the suggestion made at Yale to eliminate the private dormitory system, you advocate changes in our dormitory system as a remedy for some of Harvard's social conditions...
...dormitory situation may, it seems to me, be described best in terms of its immediate result. It throws Harvard undergraduates at the beginning of their life in Cambridge into social groups according to their money, and is a dominant factor toward preserving those groups. That is un-American, and it is against, the best university spirit. There is constantly at work in the mind of nearly every undergraduate a more or less definite desire, bred in the course of his general intellectual development, to become more catholic in his sympathies and thought. It is part of his natural growth...
...think most of us will agree that we have felt the great shortcomings of Harvard social life in this respect, and while we have believed that it is impossible ever to arrive at any ideal state we have still been of the opinion that there are many inherent obstacles to the right sort of intercourse which are capable of eradication. I remember how we set going Freshmen receptions some years ago, and how we welcomed Mr. Higginson's gift of the Union as tending to remove these obstacles. These things like the special efforts now being made for frequent smokers...
...speakers have been Dr. F. W. Tomkins, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Dr. Van Dyke, Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, Bishop Vincent, Bishop Jaggar, Rev. C. F. Dole, Rev. J. J. Baxter, D.D., Dr. W. J. Dawson, and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Besides these religious addresses there have been addresses on various social questions, one by Mr. C. B. Marsh on "The Tramp Question," Dr. J. R. Brackett on "The Ultimate Aims of our Philanthropic Work," Mr. H. B. Sawyer on "Boys' Club Work" and President Samuel Gompers on "Labor Unions...
...informal groups of men, who are interested in the Christian ministry as a life work, have been organized to meet with the University preachers and discuss some of the problems and opportunities of this profession. Through the energy of the Phillips Brooks House Association a similar organization, for social, hospitable and religious purposes, has been organized in the Dental School...