Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Shall we borrow or shall we buy books? In impressive fashion the British are this month raising the issue by a movement for the revival of reading on the purchase basis. They have found that in a population of 45,000,000 there are not more than a few hundred thousand people who actually buy the books they read, while of the remainder there is reason to believe that a considerable proportion do not habitually even borrow books for reading. And it is to move the public to a better showing that a "national book fortnight" is being observed...
...countries of Europe, Great Britain included. The set-off is that we have a large public nurtured in the tradition of buying; the foreigner who settles in our reading atmosphere finds to his surprise that we purchase as well as borrow books to an extent unknown abroad. The "shelf" movement had its greatest success here; the new cheap editions were nowhere received as enthusiastically as in the United States...
...good; Mr. Norris lets his penchant for the pictorial run away with him. It is true he speaks no more of the sea as "an enchanted moan," but allows the moon to shine brightly on a snowy hill above which is a black sky. Nevertheless, a pretty movement runs throughout, the idea is splendid, and the verses are well finished...
...course at Poughkeepsie from four to three miles, if such a plan comes before the stewards at the meeting next week. Though Coach Courtney and Cornell rowing men generally favor reducing the length of the race--some of them to two miles--Cornell is not likely to initiate a movement to bring it about, but will support the plan if it is put forward by some other steward...
...Yale's athletic heroes for many years back were there to join in the movement for the new "Y" club. It is to be built at New Haven and its membership will include all athletes who have made their letter in any branch of college sport. The idea for the club was submitted to the Yale men at the late supper which followed their big theatre party at the Century Theatre. Not only were athletes of the past and present at the celebration, but also Yale men to the number of nearly 2,000. The formation of the new Varsity...