Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...come. Therefore, all those skaters among the students who are interested in the game of Hockey are requested to meet this evening in Stoughton 20 for the purpose of forming a Harvard Hockey Club. It is hoped that a good number of men will attend and give the movement the boom which it deserves...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -In view of the fact that a large number of the students object to the preamble to the petition for voluntary prayers, now before the college, those interested in the movement have decided to make an important change. There are many who would be glad to sign this petition, but who hesitate on account of what they call "revolutionary language," and the pledge "to concerted action." To succeed we must have everybody's signature; therefore the objectionable preamble has been torn off, and the petition stands alone, as presented in the CRIMSON for Nov. 21st...
...plenty of money, The society having the Annex in charge makes special endeavors to afford its highest instruction even to small classes, giving it, in special cases, to a single pupil, because it wishes to invite this class of students to Cambridge, and because the very being of the movement is based on the desire of its founders to afford a grade of instruction not readily obtained elsewhere...
There is a movement at Michigan University to include military drill among the required courses of instruction...
According to a writer in the Encyclopaedia Brittannica, it was the Voluntary movement of 1860, and the impetus thereby given to open-air exercise and amusement, that have caused the revival of foot-ball. But, whatever the cause may have been, of the revival itself there is no question. Thirty years or so ago, for example, the game was hardly known at the Universities, was at best pursued by some exuberent freshmen, Etonians mostly, who had not yet outgrown their salad days. Now our "young barbarians" of Oxford and Cambridge kick away at each other's shins as keenly...