Word: movement
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more than two inches, and often, even, than one, while the well-set chest outgirths the indifferent one by seldom over three inches. Among girls, running is a lost art. Yet it is doubtful if an exercise was ever devised which does more to beget grace and ease of movement...
...meeting on Thursday night for the purpose of forming a shooting club was a success so far as the numbers and enthusiasm of those present are concerned, but we think a little friendly criticism of the action taken by the leaders of the movement may not be inappropriate. No doubt '86 has done much for the formation of the club and has some very line shots, but that it should hold eight out of thirteen offices and those the principal ones seems to us unwise. That the shooting club should at its first meeting violate college precedents of long standing...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMOSN :-I wish, through your columns, to call the attention of the students, and especially of the freshmen class, to the Society of Christian Brethren. This society was founded 81 years ago, to promote the religious welfare of the college. It was part of a movement against the influence of French sceptical philosophy which was very popular in the United States at the beginning of the century...
...first proclaimed that "All men are created free and equal." The most notable of these was John Wise, "The first great American democrat." "He had every quality that gives distinction among men. He was of towering height, of great muscular power, stately and graceful in shape and movement; in his advancing years, of an aspect most venerable." On one occasion he threw a famous wrestler in Massachusetts who had desired to test his strength. But he had an intellect proportioned to his strength of body; for in 1687 when the infamous Sir Edmund Andros sent for a province...
...TUESDAY.Divinity School. Meeting of the alumni at 2 P. M. in Divinity Hall Chapel. At 4 P. M., at the same place, address by Rev. James De Normandie. Subject: The New Movement in Theology. Collation in Massachusetts Hall...