Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...history of our country at least, when the evidences of a great social revolution were so plain as at present. The laboring classes are arousing themselves from the lethargy in which they have rested for the last century. Cooperation, distributive and industrial, is the form which this movement is taking. The dangers of misdirected energy on the part of the agitators are grave, and, as Mr. Brooks said in one of his lectures last term, the only way of averting them is by the education of the masses on this question. But how can men be enlightened unless there...
...movement is on foot to form a New England Association of the Alumni of Phillips Exeter Academy...
...first movement of the Beethoven quartet was rendered rather roughly, but the Adagio and Presto were played with good interpretation. The Adagio was full of expression and depth, and the brilliant Presto was played with a good deal of fire. The Andante from the Svendsen quartet proved to be the most enjoyable number of the evening. The rendering of it brought out well its romance and passion. The charming Scherzo was at times unevenly played. In the Raff quartet the slow movement was the most successfully rendered. The concert as a whole was a very enjoyable one. The Listemann quartet...
...tendency of State Socialism has been toward success. There have been but few mistakes, and the advance of this moral sentiment has been regular, and rapid. The opening of the suffrage has added to the power of the movement. The ideal of the sentiment is to make the state an organism composed of many parts, each of which shall have wishes and desires of its own embodied in the state...
...debate at the next meeting of the Harvard Union. The question is of especial interest to all students of America, for it is in the Russian universities which the hotbeds of nihilism are found. The students have been the most zealous and indefatigable of the workers in the movement, and consequently have been the objects of severe police surveillance. The sympathy which we, students in a free land, should feel towards fellow students in a land of despotic oppression, ought to be enough to excite great interest in the next debate of the Union. It is somewhat difficult to procure...