Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that it has begun to be voiced about that Mains is in the college some of the leaders in the movement to exclude him have made the statement that he is not a "full-fledged" student, and therefore cannot play. This is merely a subterfuge, for he certainly is as much a member as Scannell, who is in the Medical School, or Stearns, one of the subpitchers, who is in the Law School...
...been called out for the cage work. These men have been doing light works. in the gymnasium for the past two weeks. Arrangements have been completed for the introduction of the game of basketball into Princeton. The matter is in the hands of the football management and the movement is started with a view to keeping the football candidates in condition before the opening of the football season...
...families of New England hold within themselves. His powers of language and of the use of the most familiar and unfamiliar words were unequalled. His hold on a jury was that of absolute magnetism. All this school of oratory was swept away by the advance of the antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker, but a member of the United States Senate. How that was I can not tell, but it always imparted a touch of tenderness...
...always taken in speaking and debate. In the ante-bellum days when rhetorical speaking was in vogue, the polished Everett, the unflinching Summer, the persuasive Phillips were the country's leaders. Then came the change from the vehement "oratorical" style to the simple, direct and business-like speaking-a movement in which Harvard men have taken the lead: Colonel Higginson's "Hints on Speech-making" has been of inestimable service; the late Governor Greenhalge and ex-Governor Russell were among the most active exponents of the new style of speaking; President Eliot has always held it before...
...Bonaparte has long taken an active part in the Reform movement, and is a members of the Executive Committee of the National League. He has moreover a wide-spread reputation as a speaker...