Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...creation of the Graduate School is the complement and neccessary outcome of the elective system; and the first movement in the direction of systematic instruction for graduates was made by President Eliot in the very first weeks after his accession to office. The Faculty bear their testimony to the strong and steady faith with which the President has supported the Graduate School from the beginning, through its long years of insignificance and of apparent failure to justify the aspirations with which it was founded; and congratulate him on the result, which now makes that School one of the most important...
...change is the symptom of progress. We can define life only as a series of constant changes ending in death, the great change to something beyond. Wordsworth defines progress as a movement of the race toward an unattainable perfection. In progress there is always a tendency to reaction. Conversion is a reaction, a putting away of old associations. The progress in science, which seemed to question some religious beliefs, brought about a reaction in the belief in one absolutely true religion...
...movement has been started by the Hartford County Yale Alumni Association towards reviving the interest in debate at Yale...
...time when President Eliot came into office other institutions than Harvard were beginning to provide means for the higher learning. It is obvious that, if Harvard had failed to keep abreast with this movement her prestige as the leading seat of learning in the land would have been gone. The npbuilding of the Graduate School has been for this reason, the most important development of the University in which President Eliot has taken a leading part...
...World. This plan was conceived some time ago by Professor Charles Richet, of the Paris Faculty of Medicine, who is a well-known writer, and is constantly in touch with the highest exponents of literature, art and science, throughout Europe, many of whom are actively interested in this movement. In several continental institutions committees of students have been formed to carry on this work, under the direction of the central committee, which has been located in Switzerland because that is an essentially neutral center...