Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sunday Evening Meetings, and a statement of the amount required was given. A very small sum from every man in college would soon mount up, and every man who does help even with a mile will have the pleasure of feeling that he has helped carry on the movement so earnestly begun. Here, indeed, is a chance for true charity. If a man cannot give much, let him give little. The committee, with excellent taste and judgment, have so arranged matters that the amount of anyone's contribution will be known only to himself. So no one need be ashamed...
...Harvard students. We, as a body, and through us the college, get the full credit. And yet when the committee on funds tries to raise money in Boston, as it has been forced to, we are asked, "But what are you gentlemen in Cambridge doing to support this movement?" and now, after more than a week, we should have to answer, "The students of Harvard College have given $871" Moreover, $60 of this has been in sums larger than $5. Outside of seven persons, the college at large has contributed...
...meeting was thoroughly successful in every way and was a fortunate beginning of the movement for whose good results so many men look with earnestness...
...Morphological Laboratory, a gift of the class of '76, will be ready for use in a short time. The art building promises to be one of the handsomest in Princeton, and it is expected it will be ready for use by next spring. There is a movement on foot to put up new and handsomer buildings for the two library societies, Whig and Clio, the present buildings being too small to accommodate the members. It is the intention of those having the matter in charge, to put up buildings costing from $80,000 to $100,000, and it is understood...
Prof. Palmer has taken the lead in a movement which certainly will tend to remove somewhat the barrier that exists between the instructor and the student, and every instructor in college should fall in with the movement and every student should do his share to make it successful...