Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore will deliver a lecture on "Bosses and Rings" in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 p. m. Mr. Bonapartre graduated from Harvard in '71, and has for several years been an Overseer. He has been one of the leaders of the civil service reform movement, and was recently at the head of the movement that defeated Senator Gorman in Maryland. Mr. Bonaparte is a most interesting speaker, and from his practical experience in "Civic Duties and Reforms," is most eminently qualified to speak on such subjects...
General references: North American Review, Vol. 143, P. 382; Vol. 147, p. 121; Vol. 135, p. 525. Forum VII, 678-682. H. W. Blair, "Temperance Movement"; E. J. Wheeler, Prohibition; Cyclopedia of Temperance and Prohibition. Fernal: Economics of Prohibition; on Kansas: "Facts about Prohibition"; on Maine and Mass., "The Liquor Problem"- F. H. Wines and J. Koren...
...Robert R. Gailey of the Princeton Theological Seminary, gave an interesting review last evening in Holden Chapel, of the Student Volunteer movement in foreign fields. An informal reception will be given Mr. Gailey this afternoon at quarter past five in 25 Stoughton, to which all students are invited...
...movement has been started in Washington to establish a National University in memory George Washington...
...Appleton Chapel last evening Dean Hodges of the Episcopal Theological School, read the Bible narrative on which Racine's "Athalie" is based, and briefly told the story of the movement which led to the overthrow of the tyrannical queen of Judah. Though the tragedy of Racine had a deep religious significance there were lessons to be drawn from a study of the purely religious aspect of the story. Dean Hodges called attention to the fact that the monks of the Dark Ages were the first to produce, as a means of conveying religious truth, the sacred plays of which "Athalie...