Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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With the opening of the fifteenth century the new movement for the revival of ancient art and literature began in earnest, and this movement found its most perfect expression in art. This was chiefly owing to the Italian nature, which had received all its classical and biblical instruction from colored object teaching. Painting was the color thought of the people. Every person was an art critic, for all the churches were art schools. Through this whole period of the Renaissance the church was always the greatest patron of art, and three-fourths of all the paintings of the time...
...plan of an Intercollegiate Debating Union now bids fair to be successful, and if proper mangement is given to the movement, we see no reason why it should not reach a thoroughly firm basis. It meets a need of the times, and the ready cooperation which has been given by other universities evidences how general is this need. University men are becoming conscious of a certain lack of proportion in the attention given to their different pursuits and are seeking, in various ways, to obtain the needed balance...
...international convention of the Student Volunteer Movement is now in session at Detroit...
Some time ago it was announced that a movement was on foot to have a Harvard night at the Tremont Theatre during one of the evenings of Mr. Irving's engagement in March. Yesterday the committee which will try to realize this idea met for the first time. A small committee was appointed to make definite plans as to the sale of seats. This plan, after having come before the full committee, will be published early next week...
...students. There are the very rich and the very poor. This inequality breeds good to no one. It grinds out the joy of life to the man who is wretchedly poor, and it makes easy the corruption of life to the man who is enormously wealthy. Any movement which tends to bring about more of an equality of advantages is a promise of good. We believe that the memorial to Secretary Bolles is such...