Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this bucolic or georgic activity of Radcliffe should cause some uneasiness around Harvard Square, for we have seen no farm unit coming into being here. It may be that hundreds of University students are going back to the soil individually. If so, they deserve unstinted praise. If not, a movement in the direction of a farm unit might be the means of preventing these hundreds from inhabiting the seashore and of adding a considerable amount of produce to the nation's supply...
...Eliot will be the chief speaker at the special meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, to be held at Boston University today at 10.30 o'clock. He is to deliver an address on "The Modern School," the subject having particular reference to the general movement known under that name, and exemplified by the Lincoln School. The Lincoln School is an institution in New York City now being operated under the guidance of Mr. Abraham Flexner as an experiment, by the Rockefeller Institute. The purpose of this special meeting today is to have the association formulate...
...need to be Home Rulers to admire this man for the fight he made. By thirty-six years in Parliament of sincere and effective advocacy of Irish autonomy, he wins a place beside O'Connell and Parnell as a hero of the Home Rule movement. By his ultimate loyalty to the endangered empire, without regard to internal issues, he wins an enduring place among the statesmen and patriots of the United Kingdom...
...through the British Foreign Office at London, and secures better representation of her local needs. To supplement the work of the resident agent, Premier Bordon has made several unpresaged but important visits to the United States for the correlation of our war activities, which must make more effective the movement of our united resources of men and supplies across a common ocean highway against a common enemy...
...insurance and Liberty Bonds. What can the average private have left for entertainment? The commander of Camp Lee writes, "Such men, and we have thousands of them, certainly deserve to have their if troubles and worries occasionally erased by such recreation as the theatre furnishes." This movement is distinct and apart from the Y. M. C. A. The latter has enough of a burden of its own, and yet nobody will deny the need of the theatre in our camps...