Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discuss the advisability of the scheme and it seemed that such an organization would be a most useful addition to Yale's working force. The association, if formed, will not try to hold regular meetings, but will have them occasionally and will introduce several speakers prominent in the movement. An open meeting will be held next Wednesday, when informal addresses will be made by members of the faculty and measures effected toward the formation of a permanent organization...
Many well-known people of Boston have started a movement having for its object the organization of a Boston playgoers' club. A meeting for the organization of such an institution will be held at the Twentieth Century Club, 14 Ashburton Place, Boston, on December 5th, at 4.30 p. m. Every member of the University interested in the proposed plan is invited to this meeting...
...Congregational Church," and represented the most radical branch of his denomination. He dissolved this society in 1879, and went to Europe, and on his return in 1881 formally withdrew from specific connection with any church, and devoted himself to literature in Boston. He had been a leader in the movement that has for its object the promotion of rationalist ideas in theology, and had contributed largely to various journals and reviews. In 1867 he became the first president of the Free Religious Society. He was for a time art critic for the New York Tribune...
Owing to the recent troubles in the A. A. U. a movement has been started to establish an independent league of the best New England athletic clubs. The clubs which will probably make up the league are B. A. A., Newton A. A., Providence A. A. and Portland A. A. The plan is to have teams from these four clubs compete in track and field sports, tennis, cricket, football, water polo, baseball and other branches of sport...
Some of the adjacent preparatory schools have taken up the game. A large number of candidates from the Cambridge Manual Training and English High Schools have enlisted to form rival teams, and the movement is spreading to other schools...