Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practice games. The lacrosse twelve was told to make bricks without straw, and it did its work well. Boston is an exceptional city as regards lacrosse. Here alone the game is not in the hands of gentlemen. Thanks, however, to the efforts of recent Harvard graduates, a rigorous movement is on foot to start at least one, if not two, teams amongtheir number, who shall play the 'varsity team and others. Elsewhere the teams are supported by their gate receipts, and cannot afford to travel without a prospect of having their expenses paid. But here, since there are no gate...
...Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, California, has been finished at last and will soon be formally made over to the State University. The long, delicate work of making and mounting the enormous telescope has been successfully accomplished. A defect in the movement of the revolving floor of the dome will be remedied by means of four hydraulic rams which will move the floor at the rate of a foot per minute. The observatory has been provided with the best and most perfect astronomical instruments, including a spectroscope having a prismatic field of thirteen feet. More than $600,000 have been...
...Trades Unions have already done much to improve the intelligence and character of the laboring classes and are recognized as legitimate and just: Statistics of Labor, (1873) p. 261; Ely, Labor Movement in America...
...primary objects of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are beneficial aid, charity and mutual improvement-(a) Engineers of intelligence and good character only may be admitted to the Brotherhood. (b) Members who engage in liquor selling or illegal business are disqualified for membership: McNeil's Labor Movement in America; Constitution of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers...
...circular was favorably received by the majority of members, and Messrs. G. W. Green, J. B. Ames, and A. H. Latham were chosen to present the request to the faculty. Meanwhile, a similar movement had been started in Boston, with the result that some two hundred additional names were collected in favor of the request. On Tuesday last, at an informal meeting, Mr. Green presented the request to the faculty and made an able speech in its favor. The matter was discussed in all its aspects, the faculty evincing a desire to weigh the merits of the question thoroughly before...