Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Farragut's movement from below was checked for want of a land force, and Grant was too far from his base to continue his old plan without great difficulty. Vicksburg on the north and Port Hudson on the south were alone left to guard the Red River, the great artery of the West, but here the Confederates had concentrated all their force...
...create a sentiment in favor of the proposed club, except so far as the project commends itself. What they are trying to get at now is what the members of the University actually think of the plan. The latter has been well stated by a graduate interested in the movement in these words: "We aim simply at giving a definite amount of convenience for a definite annual sum; we don't dream of manufacturing sociability; but we believe that if eight hundred or more men find a University club worth ten dollars a year to them, its social influence will...
...action and drove the confederates to the southwest corner ot the state. There the Southerners rallied and in the drawn battle of Wilson's Creek, Lyon was killed at the head of his troops. His death was a great loss to the cause. His coolness. skill, and precision of movement were qualities which might have placed him in the front rank of commanders...
...period will help rather than harm the various events. The three germans will be held after the Glee Club concert, January 20. A Civil Service Reform Club has been organized and a constitution formulated and nominations made for officers. Professors Hadley and Henry W. Farnam are interested in the movement...
...which has had an immense run in England, no novel except Trilby being more in demand at the libraries, has just been issued in America by Macmillan and Co. In it Mr. Sladen advocates the most advanced hedonistic theories, and declares himself a strong advocate of the "New Woman" movement. "Any age," he says, "is golden in which women are as freed...