Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last meeting of the executive committee of the Cercle Francais, "Le Malade Imaginaire" of Moliere was chosen definitely as the play for next year. This comedy was preferred to others that had been suggested because of its life and movement. It abounds in witty dialogues and humorous situations. Besides the play itself there is a prologue of singing and dancing, several intermedes of ballet, and a grand finale of the conferring of the doctor's degree. To give the play and all these accessories a cast of about fifty, at least, will be required. To meet the expenses resulting from...
Last evening in Sever 11, Mr. James B. Reynolds gave an interesting lecture on the University Settlement movement in New York city...
...receive assistance from written aids or from any person or his paper, or any attempt to give assistance. This rule holds within or without the examination room during the entire time in which the examination is in progress. The sentiment of the student body is back of the movement, and the Faculty is heartily in its favor. A prominent member of that body recently said that he regarded this honor system as the most important movement which had taken place in Princeton during his professorship - a period of some fifteen years...
...Beveridge of Nebraska. The judges gave their decision in favor of the Yale club. While the judges were conferring Mr. E. C. Snyder, secretary and organizer of the National Intercollegiate Prohibition Association, explained to the audience something of the workings and significance of the intercollegiate prohibition movement, which has now spread to include thirteen or fourteen different state associations and over a hundred colleges...
Tests of quickness of movement similar to those made by Dr. Fitz at the Lawrence Scientific School are being made by Professor Scripture of the Yale psychological department. One of the most interesting of these tests is an arrangement for measuring a runner's reaction time down to the thousandth of a second which has been contrived in the Yale Laboratory. The starter's pistol is arranged so that an electric contact is broken when the pistol goes off. A thread is attached to the right foot of the runner which thread breaks an electric contact the moment the runner...