Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...greatest requisite absent_viz, skill! These eight men had been trained to row a cramped or chopping stroke, with not one particle of execution. In fact, this crew did not extend from start to finish, but exhausted their strength and frittered away their power, simply in motion and movement which was neither graceful nor effectual, as the result proved...
...frightful rapidity, and it would be only by the most prompt and well-directed effort that loss of life could be averted. It seems as if the Athletic Association might take the initiative, and organize companies for practice with the apparatus, for some one must be first in a movement like this, and an organization so powerful as the H. A. A. would be able to put the project on a firm footing at once...
...government of the college to judge. The statement certainly deserves considerable weight from the fact that Mr. Adams is a prominent member of the Board of Overseers and by his recent address before the Phi Beta Kappa has already taken the strongest stand possible in favor of the movement for the abolition of Greek as a requirement for admission. The report made by the committee of the Board of Overseers upon this subject last spring, sometime previous to Mr. Adams' address, it will be remembered gave very strong indications of some probable move in this direction by the Board...
...rounds of the press, the following from the Clipper on League pitching rules may be of interest : "The question which will be 'before the house' at the annual conventions of the League and the American Association will be whether it is best to allow an unrestrained freedom of movement in the pitchers delivery-admitting of either a pitched, a tossed, a jerked or an overthrown ball to the bat-or to still further limit the delivery so as to prevent the direct overthrow. There is one evil in connection with the rule of an unrestricted delivery of the ball which...
...cannot hope to produce a similar institution in less time. Both have been constantly and most liberally aided by donations and bequests, and one of them may be said to be a State institution. We don't propose to rival them immediately, but we hope to begin the movement now from which may spring the university of the future. As I am represented as having said "the higher branches at Yale and Harvard are calculated to alienate Catholic young men from their religion," it is proper for me to state that I said no such thing. What...