Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recently of the Harvard Union for American Neutrality in an editorial entitled "Worse Than Slackers": "Suddenly a new group in opposition to Harvard prepared has arisen. It is called the Harvard Union for American Neutrality, a high-sounding idealistic name which successfully clothes the real spirit of this unfortunate movement...
...Union may be "idealistic"; it is at least thoughtful and deserves to have an intelligent interpretation put upon its conduct. After attacking the Union the valiant CRIMSON brushes the mud from its skirts and says, with the air of a martyr: "Those in the van of any new movement must withstand constant attacks from groups of individuals who are compelled to join the camp of the opposition because of their inherent desire to appear individual, obstinate, or wise, on account of their aloofness...
...course; French 15 hf., Pascal and Port Royal, will be a new course; French 17, Literary Criticism in France, will be made a full course and closed to undergraduates; Comparative Literature 1, European Literature, formerly given by Professor Wendell, will be withdrawn; Comparative Literature 11, the Romantic Movement in the 19th Century, will be made a full course; Comparative Literature 12 hf., the Types of Fiction in the 18th and 19th Centuries, will be given as a half-course; Fine Arts 5m hf., Durer, Holbein and Cranach, will be a new course; Fine Arts 5n hf., Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Raphael...
...training, there are also nearly a hundred men signed up for the aviation school, a hundred in the naval reserve course, and many more still enrolled in some militia organization. Considering these facts, it may be conservatively estimated that fifteen hundred Harvard men are active in the great preparedness movement to give our country adequate military and naval organizations. These figures cannot lie. Harvard is in the van and can justly point with pride to her patriotic showing in this period of national danger...
...tonight will place Harvard either far in the lead of the march toward an adequate and honorable defence for our country, or it will signify that Harvard is content to wait conservatively for another braver body to blaze the trail. Those in the van of any new movement must withstand constant attacks from groups of individuals who are compelled to join the camp of the opposition because of their inherent desire to appear individual, obstinate or wise on account of their aloofness. But no specious arguments nor altruistic dreams should blind one man to the duty that rests on each...