Word: socially
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students. The students are resident in Cambridge, and the work of the school constitutes their chief occupation and interest. Questions relating to their common pursuit are constantly the subject of conversation and discussion among the members of the school, and the stimulating and invigorating effect of this constant social intercourse among a large body of educated and highly trained young men cannot be overestimated." Is this much in advance of "the salutation, the bow, the courtesy," etc., of Neophogen? These improprieties in our Catalogue - embracing the commonplace, the bombastic, and some passages of a catch-penny character - must have come...
...social meeting of the Alumni, held December 22, at the Union League Theatre, Mr. John Jay strongly advocated the removal of the various departments of the University, and their establishment in one place as a single institution...
...have no doubt perceived, I am in a very prosy vein to-day, and I shall cut my letter short, for fear that you will apply to it my remarks about the bore of reading. My advice to you is simply to play the part of a social chameleon. Adapt yourself to the company that you are in. If you can talk their shop-talk, talk it with them. If you cannot talk it, listen to them. But never assert yourself in opposition without real reason. Keep your ears open. Remember as much that you hear as possible...
...care. I remember that during my Junior year I went to one or two of the assemblies as they called the parties which the students managed, and my observations at once amused and annoyed me. A number of very good fellows were there who had confined their social experiences to college societies, and who were delightfully ill at ease in the company of anybody but men of their own age. Some who, like you, were blest with assurance tried to conceal their diffidence by a sort of familiar impudence that was anything but creditable to their training. Others...
...Oberlin student, although he spends fifty-eight days in the exclusive pursuit of "social refinement," does not, according to the Review, derive the benefit he should from his rare chance for social culture...