Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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This is the first movement towards class organization in the school and is significant when taken in connection with the large increase in numbers over previous years. The class numbers 22, of whom thirteen are graduates of Harvard, while the others represent Oxford, and Durham, England; Heidelberg, Germany; the University of Montreal, Canada; the State Universities of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa, and several denominational schools...
...suffice to him who already suffices to himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind their sympathy of form and movement, that sustains the faith of the crag in its forlorn endurance, and of the harebell in the slender security of its stem, may inspire or soothe, console or fortify, the man whose physical and mental fibre is so sensitive that, like the spectroscope, it can both feel and record these impalpable...
...verbatim report of the proceedings of the recent Student Volunteer Movement conference, held at Detroit, will be published May 15. The book will be handsomely bound and will contain about 400 pages. It will include the addresses of the principal speakers...
There is a movement on foot in the English universities to render their postgraduate research departments more popular among foreign students. The reason that these universities are not more popular among advanced American students is because they have no post-graduate work, in the American sense of the term. The "Tripos" system at Cambridge of dividing all men into three classes of honor at the final examinations, demands most sever work with a coach for a long succession of years, and, after the final examination upon the success or failure in which depends the whole work in the previous years...
...Gulliver Gr., the second speaker, said that twelve hundred students were present at the Detroit convention and that three hundred different colleges were represented. The immense scope of the movement may be seen from the fact that thirty-eight denominations were represented by the delegates...