Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present conflict in Cuba does not warrant intervention in behalf of the insurgents.- (a) Our treaty obligations with Spain: J. H. Haswell, Treaties and Conventions, pp. 1006 1041.- (b) Not a national movement for freedom.- (1) Number engaged in revolt is small.- (2) Of low character.- (3). Solid interests not in revolt: Harper's Weekly, 27 July, 1895, 31 Aug. 1895.- (c) Intervention not warranted on score of Spanish atrocities.- (1) Insurgents are the conspicuous offenders: Cosmopoltan, XIX. pp. 608-616; J. F. Clark on Cuba's Struggle for Freedom...
...movement has recently been started to establish a branch of the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity in Princeton. It is hoped earnestly by the undergraduates that this may be accomplished and vigorous efforts will be made to bring it about this winter so that the present senior class may enjoy the advantages of membership...
...appeal for improvements at the post office,- for nearly a thousand names have been signed to the petition already,- we wish to emphasize a point about which there still seems to be doubt in some quarters, namely as to why University men should concern themselves with a movement like this. They get their mail regularly, so far as they know; what business is it of theirs, they ask, if the government is remiss in the care of its employes, or in any other respect...
...urge, furthermore, that as members of the community and patrons of the post office, University men are bound to interest themselves in a movement like this, provided that they are satisfied that a need exists. It is only a few days since Harvard men have been told of the duties of the college graduate in public affairs. To be sure, the scope of a man's interest will widen as he enters into the active life of a citizen; but his responsibility as a member of the community does not begin with his possession of a college degree. When...
...blue-books containing the petition for better quarters for the Cambridge post-office were put up at noon yesterday and before night several hundred names were subscribed. Many members of the Faculty have expressed their endorsement of the movement in strong terms. One spoke of the accommodations in the post office as the worst he had ever seen and characterized the place as a "a nasty hole." Another said that it was unfit for a dog to live in." Another said that though the University alone, represented nearly five thousand persons, including Radcliffe College and the families of instructors, there...