Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...movement is on foot among the seniors of the Institute of Technology. To inaugurate some kind of class day festivities, in addition to the somewhat monotonous graduating exercises. There has been considerable dissatisfaction among the students on account of the lack of interest in graduation day, but it now seems probable that this will be remedied...
...Lampoon, some eight years ago, inspired by the co-educational movement then setting in at Harvard, drew a picture of what would probably be seen at the college in the year 1976. A young lady, very "tough" in looks and dress, with a cigarette and a "dawg," was represented as coming out of Holworthy, carrying a shingle with the announcement that the Amazon Club met that night. Look on this picture, and on the following, and then say if the Lampoon's prophecy is unlikely to come to pass. On one of the trains to New York-so we learn...
...crying out against a theoretical grievance. I agree with you heartily in your protest against acts of insubordination and lawlessness by way of manifesting your discontent with the present compulsion. Nothing can excuse such acts as the recent disfiguration of the chapel, and nothing will more certainly impede your movement. Indeed, the various indications of late, that an element of rowdyism is reappearing a Harvard, will be seized upon as an argument that more, and not less restraint is needed...
...again on the subject of chapel going, for the only return that the protests of the students have received hitherto is a contemptuous silence. We state definitely, that we have full sympathy with any attempt to do away with compulsory attendance at prayers. And although we view the present movement to that end as doomed to failure, still, we trust that every undergraduate will sign the "petition," in order to express once more the feeling with which this foolishly wrong custom of chapol-going is regarded. At any rate, it is one more protest...
...petition as it now stands, no undergraduate can object. There will be a canvass of the college, and we hope that everyone will sign. If everyone will show an interest in this movement, we have better prospects of succeeding than we have ever had before...