Word: social
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...society a man who declares his friend to display a lack of elegance in taste is knocked down and kicked; in the higher walks of life in which you move, he is voted an insufferable prig and is avoided by everybody but eccentric people who court the society of social outcasts...
...present Class Day and the present Commencement. If I am not misinformed, a Commemoration Week, or something of that sort, is the regular end of an English University course; and every day of that week is filled with appropriate exercises, - some of a literary kind, some of a social. I think that such an arrangement would be pleasant here. But as I have had no opportunity to consult the powers that be in regard to this matter, I can only offer a few suggestions, which I should like to hear discussed...
...other than my chum. Greeting him with a warmth to which he failed, I fear, to assign its real cause, I forthwith abandoned my reverie for a social chat, which was continued till, at the stroke of midnight, our host bade us God speed...
Seated in a corner of a familiar room, I soon became unconscious of the presence of noisy Freshmen and noisier Sophomores, as I gave myself up to the delights of a tete-a-tete with a tall glass of foamy beer; and, thinking myself back to many social evenings spent in the same hospitable apartment, and not unmindful of my present solitary condition, I fell into one of those trains of reflection that not unnaturally come to a white-haired Senior...
...year will have calculated with marvellous closeness. The plan, in fact, is to have our last year made up of "all work and no play." Complaints come to us already that the conclusion of the nursery proverb will be fulfilled in our case. The University will lose that social tone for which it has so long been justly famous. Life here will lack the brilliancy that has distinguished it in times gone by, and will degenerate into one "demmed horrid grind." We confess that the aspect of the picture seems to us threatening in the extreme. But let us struggle...