Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...universities of the Middle West are just as alert as the great private colleges and institutions in the East. There is, perhaps, one difference, for the state universities which are required to have some military training, and have accordingly been accustomed to the preparedness movement, are not quite so upset over the developments of the last two months...
Special permission has been secured from Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to enhibit the Government film entitled; "America Preparing," in which the various aspects of the nation-wide movement for adequate defences will be shown. "War As It Really Is" will be another of the films to be shown. This picture was photographed by D. C. Thompson, war correspondent of Leslie's Weekly, while he was under fire. It is recommended by the United States Naval War College, and reveals actual trench fighting, and the Germans marching through Belgium...
...uplift movement has hit two universities this week. At Yale the seniors have voted that there shall be no intoxicating liquors served at the class banquet in June or at future class reunions. At Syracuse the students in the department of agriculture have placed a ban on smoking at the annual school banquet to be held shortly after Easter. And Billy Sunday a thousand miles away! --Boston Transcript...
...Medical School of the University has united with the medical schools of Tufts College and Boston University in a movement to give instruction in military medicine. Lieutenant Colonel W. P. Chamberlain '97, of the Medical Corps of the army, and Surgeon G. F. Freeman '96, of the Medical Corps of the navy, have been delegated by the Government to give a course of instruction at the University. This is part of a general movement on the part of the medical schools of the country to prepare students so that they may serve as medical officers in the army or navy...
...Champ in "Undergraduate America Prepares" makes us feel very keenly the significance of the whole collegiate movement for preparedness. "I didn't know," the average Senior remarks, "that the University of California was doing anything in military training." That's just it. California is so far away that it is hard for us, in our restricted sphere, to see whether they are doing anything at all. We never fully realize the wide scope of a great movement until it is clearly summarized for us, as Mr. Champ has done in good fashion. Again, Mr. Champ in his exposition, "Harvard Tries...