Word: socially
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...comedy runs in three acts: one in a rising middle-western city of families that would also rise socially; one in Newport at midsummer among the socially ascending and ascended; and one in Boston among those who already dwell in a higher social aether. In all three scenes the central figure is Mrs. Alexander Smith--hyphenated after the first act--who wishes to mount socially and who deserves her progress. At Breezeboro, where the action begins, she is capable of handling simultaneously a perturbed party of women at bridge and a high-placed matron of New York who has dropped...
With Mrs. Smith go a little company of lightly sketched, diversified, and amusing personages: her husband who provides the money for this social pilgrimage and takes the right of free comment upon it for his compensation; her secretaries, a well contrasted Boston youth of the aether and a western girl of less rarified atmosphere; the Russian prince, exotic and amorous, that she gathers into her train; women of Breezeboro, women of Newport, women of Boston--aesthetic, intellectual, philanthropic, or "merely" social; and finally, entertaining "specimens" of the "younger set" of society in Boston and of the University in Cambridge...
...fifth conference on social and religious problems will be held in the Parlor of the Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7.30 o'clock. Dean W. W. Fenn '84, of the Divinity School, will give his first lecture on "Christian Teachings and Social Applications." The meeting will be open to all members of the Law and Graduate Schools...
...George Kerschensteiner, of Munich, Germany, will deliver a lecture on the subject of "The Problems of Education as Social Problems" at the meeting of Education 2a in Harvard 1, this morning at 10 o'clock. Dr. Kerschensteiner holds the position of city superintendent of schools in Munich and can thus speak from a practical standpoint. During the past week, he has been the guest of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education at its meeting in Boston. On a recent trip through the West, he spoke at Chicago university and at the university of Cincinnati. The lecture will...
...LECTURE. "The Problems of Education as Social Problems." Dr. George Kerschensteiner, City Superintendent of Schools, Munich, Germany. Harvard...