Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Sever 11 was well filled again last evening at the third of Professor Peabody's lectures on Social Ethics. He spoke on the question of marriage and divorce, their history, relation, and significance. Divorce is the negative side of the question; it is the symbol of inconstant family life. It has increased within the last thirty years almost three times as fast as the population, and it has come to be granted for trivial and even nonsensical reasons. The looseness that pervades the whole system has brought with it a moral shock and a consequent great social evil...
...building of the character proposed would stand in the University for the religious life of the students. It would be to the new student the symbol of the welcome which it is now so hard to express; and to all students it would be a constant reminder of the high aims of the societies which are now almost hidden from view, and even from thought, in their obscure rooms. Its purpose would be anything but a narrow one, for the three societies now represent practically all shades of religious belief, and any new religious society would find a place...