Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purposes. On the lower floor there will be a dining-room and club meeting room. One room will be devoted to literary purposes, with facilities for those wishing to read or study. The rooms will be thrown open in May, with an appropriate recognition of the event. This new movement on the part of the club has been largely suggested by the number of young men coming into the club, who, it was thought, would appreciate club-rooms where they might gather for social purposes. For graduates of Harvard living out of town it will also prove a great convenience...
There is cause for great congratulation that the College Base-ball League has been formed. The movement for an improvement in college base-ball has been favored by us from the first and our opinion was but one in many. Every lover of the national game must read the account published on our first page to-day with satisfaction and delight. Hereafter there will be no doubt about the best nine in the League. Four games with each club will settle the superiority, if there is any to be settled. Our friends in New York will not be able...
...vote of the mass meeting which empowered Princeton's delegates in the matter had not a dissenting voice. Columbia was welcomed as a member, and it is the desire of all Princeton men that Yale lay aside her accustomed feeling of suspicion and stubbornness, and sympathize with the movement. It is the universal opinion that she will be compelled so to do, or be boycotted by the trio of colleges...
...rumored that there is a movement among several influential citizens of Cambridge to obtain a repeal of the prohibition act passed last fall...
...fast lines between the different classes, and between the professors and the students, have been eliminated. Compulsory chapel has been abolished, hazing has disappeared, and the elective system has done much to elevate and broaden our college life. A university club would be a valuable auxiliary in this movement. It would fill a place which no other college society can fill, since the object of other societies is to promote intercourse only between one class of students. A university club would embrace all classes. It would tend to break up fractions and cliques. It would bring together congenial...