Word: social
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...does not present a capitation or an educational test alone, but an alternative one which will allow skilled laborers to enter. This will satisfy the economic need of the country, for as C. D. Wright says, the demand for unskilled labor is on the decrease. We must consider the social life of our people, not merely economic production...
General William Booth of the Salvation Army, will speak in Sanders Theatre at 3 this afternoon, under the auspices of the religious societies of the University. His subject will be, "The Social Aspects of the Salvation Army." E. L. Logan 1L., president of the Catholic Club will preside. Profossor Peabody will speak in introduction. General Booth will be sixty-nine years old tomorrow and this may be his last visit to Harvard or to America...
...modern state questions of a social nature play so increasingly important a part, that recent years have seen them more and more becoming subjects of University study. Harvard was in the van of this movement and is considered to offer exceptional opportunities for inquiries of this nature. We therefore believe that inevitably General Booth's address this afternoon will be more than ever well attended. The Salvation Army has a clearly defined programme for social as well as for religious improvement, and those who remember General Booth's last visity to Harvard will give assurnce of its admirable presentation today...
...wish to call attention to a matter that has caused some comment both within the University and among men outside, namely, the tendency of late years to hold class dinners in the week before Easter. A considerable number of men prefer not to attend social events during this period, and when their class dinner comes in Holy Week are reduced to a disagreeable choice. They form such a large part of every college class that, if possible, it seems only fair to consider their wishes. We therefore suggest that committees in the future think of this matter before setting...
Hardly a man realizes until he comes to know by experience what a truly important point in his college career is his first class dinner. Not until then does he see his class gathered together as a social unit, and many of those to whom such dinners are of the past will bear witness that then for the first time they felt that they were really a part of their class. A class dinner resembles a great athletic victory in its leveling effect, and when men once esteem all others equal with themselves, a lasting impression is the result...