Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reported that a movement is on foot among influential college graduates in New York to have a football league formed between Harvard, Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. The proposal is that Harvard should play Yale, Princeton play the University of Pennsylvania, and then the winners meet to decide the intercollegiate championship...
Shortly after the death of Phillips Brooks, almost two years ago, a movement was begun to erect a fitting memorial to him at Harvard. Dr. Brooks had been much interested during the later years of his life in the endeavor to erect a building for the religious societies of the University, and so it was thought that such a building would be a most fitting memorial...
...laid in Naples, for the reason, perhaps, that striking adventures and extraordinary circumstances seem more plausible when they take place in a foreign country. The Play is Molieere's version of the Phormio of Terence. The main features of the old comedy have been retained, but more life and movement have been added. Moliere's play also has far more of the modern ideas and situations than Phormio. The characters and the plot are as follows: Argante and Geronte are two old men. Octave and Leandre are two young fellows; Octave is the son of Argante and Leandre of Geronte...
...first established his position as one of the foremost orators of his time in a speech delivered the same year in Faneuil Hall, at a meeting called to express indignation at the killing of Loverjoy. From that time on he was the champion of the anti-slavery movement, using his unequalled powers of oratory in its cause. The fight was over when Lincoln called for volunteers, and the abolitionists came into popular favor...
...movement justifiable...