Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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GENTLEMEN:- On behalf of the Committee of Graduates of the University, organized some two years ago to forward the project of a University Club, I would say that we heartily endorse the movement on the part of the undergraduates which you now represent...
...late years there has been an increasing movement toward popular recognition of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, February 12, and now it is proposed to make public recognition of the date at Harvard...
...know that the University has ever attempted to honor the great president, but it is a custom well worth beginning. Lincoln was not a college graduate. Modern education can not claim him as its product. But it is nevertheless most fitting that the colleges should lead in the movement to show respect for him, because he possessed almost as natural traits many of the finest mental and moral qualities which America is nowadays trying to develop by means of her educational institutions...
...most schools, however, with the probable exception of Andover and Exeter, but little progress has been made. Interscholastic contests would do much to stimulate vigorous training and no one can do so much to put life into the movement as can the college debater...
Such a committee as that of sixty Juniors and Seniors, formed this year for the reception of Freshmen, can do a deal of good in this direction, and it will be a great pity if the movement is allowed...