Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Smithsonian Institute at Washington, "An Interesting Dialogue in 1676, between Bacon, 'the rebel,' and John Goode of Whitby." Judge J. Tarbell, of Washington contributes "Horace Greeley's Practical Advice to the Reconstructionists in Mississippi;" and T. J. Chapman, A. M., writes an interesting paper on the "Religious Movement in 1800." The shorter articles are varied and entertaining. The number concludes with its carefully edited departments of Original Documents, minor topics, notes, queries, replies, socleties, etc., well filled, its "Historic and Social Jottings" illustrated, and a dozen or more ably written book reviews...
...movement, already partially successful, is on foot in England to establish a Non-Conformist college in Oxford. It is to be known as "Mansfield College."- Exchange...
...movement is on foot to build a State University for colored people in Montgomery, Ala. The city has given $5,000 and three acres of land to the institution...
...look back on the year with serious gratitude. The services of worship have been attended beyond our expectations, and we believe that a distinct movement of healthy religious life has been perceptible in the University. Each of us has conducted morning prayers for about seven weeks, and each has preached on four Sunday evenings. The remaining services on Sunday have been led by the following preachers through our invitation...
...rowing by the undergraduates of our American universities. One point upon which the two may be considered to agree, although there is considerable divergence of opinion between them in other matters, is the uselessness and absurdity of the college crews-maintaining the secrecy that they attempt to regarding their movements and performances prior to the time of the annual race. As one of these authorities says, if the young men were attempting to jockey the public, and, so to speak, inveigle innocent and unsuspecting betters into a confidence game, it would be all right for them to put forth what...