Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...circumstances and position and resources. This appears to imply a view of the right of faculties to interfere quite as extreme as the undergraduate notion that the students must be left altogether to themselves. If we are right in what we have been saying, the difficulty with the present movement lies in its having attempted too much, and points to the necessity of a revision of the regulations with a view to confining them to a much smaller field, and possibly to fewer colleges even than five...
...Noteworthy strategic movements. Movements to the Peninsula. Socalled Siege of Yorktown. Operations before Richmond, especially the defeat of McClellan by a movement on his right flank...
...assurance given by Col. Codman of the board of overseers, at the dinner of the New York Harvard Club, that the corporation are not in favor of the present movement against the study of Greek apparently settles this momentous question for some time to come, since the speech seems to have been made with authority. As an experiment the proposed change could not have been viewed but with the greatest anxiety by all friends of the college. Its abordment for the present, at least, must be regarded with relief...
...reported to oppose the resolutions, and the students heartily shook hands with the faculty on that point. "It is well known," said Mr. Booth, of Yale College, "that the faculty and students, to a man, oppose the resolutions." Harvard's students would assist in any effort to stop the movement, and did not believe in the action of their instructors...
Stevens Institute proposes to take up lacrosse and form twelve. Many of the football men, who played on their energetic team of last fall, are interested in the movement...