Word: movement
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...young men of the University. When this measure was carried into effect it was supposed that a woman would be entitled to the same privileges as the other members of the University. This has been the case in every instance but one-that of pecuniary aid. Now recently, a movement has been started by the New York Local Committee attempting to raise a scholarship to help women through Harvard. Although the income of the amount proposed will be small, it will prove of incalculable benefit, helping deserving students, raising the standard of study in private schools, and increasing the attendance...
Agan and again the Meds tried to gain the vantage point, but every time they were repelled. At last they had recourse to a stratagem. By a sudden flank movement they baffled the college men, and getting hold of the bowl they charged against the doors of the dead-room. A horrible sight greeted the college men, and they drew back with terror. But the repulsive grins of the "stiffs" were to the Meds only smiles of welcome from old friends. They closed the doors after them, and a minute later they showed the bowl from the third-story window...
...teaching of the English language and English literature in the preparatory schools, by steadily increasing requirements in this respect as conditions of admission to college. It appears that, with the exception of Yale College, all the leading educational institutions of New England have united with Harvard in the movement, and have issued identical lists of the literary works with which freshmen are required to be familiar. So far as the purpose of this endeavor is concerned we have only the heartiest approval to express. We hold a thorough mastery of the English language to be the one thing absolutely essential...
...this action, Columbia is the first of the large colleges to take the step of giving to women the same privileges as are extended to men. Whether this progressive movement will call forth corresponding action from her sister universities remains to be seen. For some time the smaller colleges-Colby, Wesleyan and others-have admitted women as candidates for degrees, but until the plan is adopted by the more prominent institutions of learning the success of this revolutionary attempt cannot be assured...
Arrangements have been made for an authors' reading, to be given in Sanders Theatre, Longfellow's birthday evening, February 27th, the proceeds of which will be added to the fund. The movement is wholly independent of the Memorial Association, but has, of course, its warmest wishes for success. It is expected that the following authors will take part. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Edward Everett Hale, Julia Ward Howe, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Winter, John Boyle O'Reilly, Arlo Bates, George Parsons Lathrop and Louise Chandler Moulton. Tickets will be for sale in Cambridge and Boston...