Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...onslaughts which the classics have received of late, though whether it will result so favorably for the classicists as this view would indicate is in truth an open question. But one thing seems certain, that out of all this hue and cry for "practical education" will come a movement for "the higher education." It may be that some such exaltation of Greek will be attendant on it, or it may not. Time will show...
Certainly the situation is not so deplorable as to justify a movement which might be accompanied by outbreaks similar to that which recently occurred at Princeton, disturbances which do more harm both to the students and the college in a day than all the "professionalism" which now exists could in years...
...standard regardless of consequences would be to get rid of one evil, and at the same time to invite a worse one-chronic discontent among the young men. If anything further is done in the matter would it not be the part of wisdom and prudence to restrict the movement to an attempt to rescue football from the category of exhibitions of brutality? This "sport" seems to us to be most in need of reform. Life would still be worth living for the Harvard undergraduate, even if Yale were shut out from these contests, provided base-ball, the race...
...often said that Oxford is the more famous of the two universities for movements and Cambridge for men, but the fact is that in most of the great movements for liberalizing the universities and extending their sphere of usefulness Cambridge has taken the lead and Oxford has reluctantly followed. The so-called "University Extension" movement is one conspicuous instance, and another was afforded by the debate in Congregation at Oxford on the proposal to open some of the university examinations to women. At Cambridge the women students have now for some few years enjoyed this privilege to the full...
...west side of the river and making a wide circuit came out on the river again several miles below. The fleet ran by the city in the night time and joined the army. Grand Gulf now stood directly in Grant's path across the river. By a flank movement he caused the Confederates to evacuate it and to retire towards Vicksburg and Jackson, the capitol of Mississippi, not many miles back from the river. Calling up Sherman, Grant marched forward and succeeded in separating the Confederate forces. He marched into Jackson and drove out General Joseph Johnston and then turned...