Word: social
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Education itself has not escaped this inevitable law of centralization. For centuries schools and colleges have existed in France. Indeed, previous to the year 1789 there were already some twenty-one or twenty-two universities. The Revolution came, and with it a great upheaval in the social world. People felt that they were about to leave behind the old established state of things to enter upon a life under entirely new conditions, and that for this new state of society new methods were essential...
...union there is strength, the social muscles of the University are developing finely. A number of new societies have been announced recently, and now two more are on the carpet. (The English Club has forsworn all foreign tongues...
...this our loss is double, for not only do we lose ground in our knowledge of the language, but we lose, also, the pleasure of social converse in the tongue pre-eminently fitted to convey the niceties of conversation...
...qualifications of applicants to be decided upon by an examination. The meetings of the club to be essentially social in character, at the same time that so re literary performances may be found useful in sustaining the interest. The expenses of the club will be inconsiderable, and will be defrayed by an initiation fee put at the lowest possible figure...
...momentous and ever-expanding problems presented by the social and political movements of the time" open to the coming generation a field for action wider and more varied than any it has been the fortune of human benefactors in the past ever to tread; and besides the primary duty of solving these problems there will always be need to counteract the "specious and superficial sophistry of the half-fledged demagogues of the hour." It is therefore at once a "dictate of prudence and a precept of patriotism," to guide aspiring youth so that they may adequately grapple with the difficulties...