Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Beginning this morning Bishop Vincent of the Methodist Episcopal Church begins a term of service among us as University preacher. The bishop stands very high in his own denomination and is prominent also as the head of a great movement for popular education. He comes to Harvard a comparative stranger but we feel sure that he will find no less a welcome from this fact. We bespeak for him that greeting which will please him best, the sight of many faces at morning prayers...
...have talked with the Athletic Committee and who must know just how many students are in sympathy with them before they can go further with the matter. If only a few men sign the blue-books there can be no further use of effort for this new movement; if, on the contrary, it becomes evident that there is a pretty general sentiment in favor of the plan it can probably be carried out successfully. Men who are interested in the matter will help it on its way by putting their signatures on the list as soon as possible...
Speaking of the student voluntary movement for foreign missions, Mr. Roots said that there are at present 3,000 men who are preparing to be missionaries. The aim of the volunteer movement is the evangelization of the world in this generation, to provide that there shall be no place in the world that a man may not listen to the preaching of the Gospel. There never was a greater demand for educated men in the Christian ministry. Mr. Roots closed with an appeal to the members to become missionaries...
...judgement it would be possible and desirable to form a league with the primary object of further organizing the growing dissatisfaction with current political methods, now observable among the best classes of all parties, into active and concerted opposition. Of the fifty who replied, forty thought that such a movement would meet with the support of the educated classes as represented by college men, and thirty men in as many institutions of learning have offered their services to aid in the work of organization...
...account of the recent financial troubles, the committee which has had charge of the fund for a new Dental School building, has not lately made any effort to complete the necessary sum. It will be remembered that this movement was started last January. A public meeting was held in Horticultural Hall, at which President Eliot, Dr. McKenzie, Governor Russell, and Phillips Brooks made addresses. It was proposed to raise $150,000 for the erection of a building on the lot adjoining that owned by the Boston Medical Library Association on St. Botolph street...