Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...lamentable fact that the interest which graduates of Exeter now at Harvard take in their preparatory school this year has fallen so low as to call out expressions of surprise from the Exeter papers. Only about two years ago the group of Exeter men at Harvard formed a club for the purpose of furthering the interests of Harvard at Exeter; there was a deal of enthusiasm in the cause, and plans were proposed which promised well. But now, in this very short time, all interest in the club seems to have died out. If we might be pardoned...
...admirable manner to collect subscriptions. The old method, which was a bore to everyone, of apportioning each building to some one or two men is not being carried out; but instead, a great number of men have been chosen, each of whom is to see a small group of his friends. This way of getting money ought to succeed better than the ordinary way. Men have naturally become tired of having visitors armed with subscription papers appear at all manner of times at their rooms...
...anniversary dinner of the Signet Society, which took place last evening in Boston, was a fitting celebration of the founding of the society. The Signet Society, was started in 1870 by a group of prominent members of the senior class, its first president being Charles J. Bonaparte, Esq., now of Baltimore. Since then it has continually been an important factor in undergraduate life. Today, as the Junior Literary Society, it is the goal of many men's desires, not only for the sake of its present pleasures but on account of the link which it forms through life between...
...less degree, Berlin were centers of importance. The period was one of ferment for young men who thought themselves endowed with genius, and influenced German thought from that day to this. But in a narrower sense, the name of Romantic School is applied only to a group of young men, born between 1765 and 1775, notably the brothers Schlegel, Tieck, Noualis, Schelling and Schleiermacher...
...distinguishing feature of this group was the creation of a new world; but they did it rather as romancers than as metaphysicians. They suggested instead of completing and interpreted the world in sentiment and in divination rather than in divine...