Word: social
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...write with the idea or hope of carrying conviction, nor did I aspire to criticise Harvard social life. My aim was merely to show the influence which popular men have over public opinion at Harvard, and the good which they may do by means of that influence. I am not aware that this topic has ever been discussed in a college paper before, though in illustrating it I spoke of a practice which has been the subject of college comment, - I mean the practice of toadying...
Even if there is a person in college corresponding to the imaginary "Gosling," - a phenomenon whose real existence one is inclined to question, - he will never become popular by pursuing the policy suggested by this social critic. The man who will make a fool of himself because "Swellington" does, and will then "brag about it for the rest of the year," cannot be familiar with the ways and means of social preferment...
...college life is a caricature of the social life of the world. The candidate for social position dares not offend the society which confers that position; so he becomes a lackey dressed in the livery of the society, the exact counterpart of every other society man in both dress and opinions. There is Snobling, for instance, - a cigarette-rolling Sophomore. Ask him what he thinks about admitting women to Harvard. I can vouch that his answer will...
...Summons boy" will make his debut in "Betsy and I Are Out," in the Social Union Hall, March 24. Tickets at the Secretary's office...
...little harm, and sometimes much good, to call attention to the important passages by a pencil-mark. But in works of fiction many dash their pencils recklessly along a paragraph that strikes their fancy at the moment. This is almost always done when alone in a sort of friendly social feeling toward the next reader, and because there is no one present to share the reader's delight! Did you ever see a man mark a book? No, because if any one is present, the passage is read aloud and gives the reader as much, or rather more pleasure than...