Word: social
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...without social honors is generally without much influence. A man who is unpopular, usually lacks social honors. And a man who is persistently out of the fashion is not apt to be popular. Now, very unfortunately, study is horribly out of fashion; and if you want to command the regard of your Freshman classmates, you must endeavor to make them believe that you only work when you have nothing better to do. You must never allow yourself to openly sacrifice pleasure to duty. The truth is, that any American is provoked by the presence of a person...
...closing my letter with the remark that a paper that desires to have any influence upon public opinion ought to endeavor to maintain some reputation for accuracy; and that if such a paper feels called upon to find fault with a body of men who are at least the social and intellectual equals of its editors, it will find that an exposition of its views, worded in a rational and courteous way, will have far more weight with the College public than a violent attack written in a style of which the best models are to be found...
...exclaim, "Beware lest in avoiding Charybdis you run on Scylla. Beware! the philosophy of Herbert Spencer is anti-Christian." Brother, fear not. This philosophy follows the Christian precept; it is "all things to all men." Under its broad tent meet together Christian and Free-religionist, and enjoy a social chat on the philosophy of the unknowable, in place of the wonted clash of arms. Here too may be seen together the much-lamented combination of "cigarette and ulster" cheek by jowl with the ardent democrat, who sits with his feet on the table to cultivate equality, discussing the philosophy...
THERE appeared in the last number of the Advocate a criticism of Mr. Emerson's "Letters and Social Aims," recently published, in which the writer casts reflections on our author's age, insinuating that he detects signs of weakness and loss of pristine vigor; and after finding fault with the titles and subject-matter of these essays, he proceeds to detail to us some gratuitous information about Omar Khayyam, alias Chiam, whom he thinks Mr. Emerson has failed to treat with proper deference and appreciation. In spite of his specious remarks on Khayyam, appearances tend to prove that either...
...books and manage the money matters of college societies. The Boat Club, the Base-Ball Club, the Foot-Ball Club, etc., might join together to employ a regular salaried clerk to manage their business, to send out and collect bills, to pay their debts, etc. The more private and social societies might do the same. A disagreeable and often ill-managed responsibility would be lifted off of the shoulders of our fellow-students, and the money matters of the clubs, being managed by men who could give to them their whole time, would probably be found to assume a much...