Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last year a movement was started by members of the board of trustees of Columbia College which advocated a radical change in the college proper. The object was to do away with the undergraduate department-the Arts School-and make Columbia a University on the German plan, according to which all faculties are on an equal footing, a thing, they said, which could never take place when a student first obtains his general education at a college and then studies for his professional degree at a postgraduate school. This proposed radical change has given way to a more conservative scheme...
...precedessors, is excellent in every way with the exception of its verse. The dearth of real poetry of which the editors of our papers are loudly complaining is well illustrated by this number. Of the three contributions in verse, two are of little merit. They are lame in their movement and bare in their thought. The lines "A Picture" are better than the other verse...
...University of Virginia has no chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, although Thomas Jefferson is said to have been the founder of both. A movement is now on foot at the University to secure a charter...
Mendelssohn's Scotch symphony came last upon the programme. All the movements were well performed, but the second deserves particular mention for its delicate rendering, and seemed to find the greatest favor with the audience. The last movement was handicapped by the fact that many were already leaving the hall, with the usual banging of doors...
Last spring a movement was started by undergraduates of Harvard College to form an interscholastic football association. In former years the various Boston schools had football teams, but they were usually of no account, and it was thought that such an association would bring out many more football men, and that the Boston schools would in time rival with Andover and Exeter in supplying material to Harvard elevens...