Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...distinguished philosopher to Harvard, his coming none the less opens an unusual opportunity to students of philosophy, logic, social psychology, and ethics. Particularly striking will his vigorous and novel views be regarded here in that he is one of the distinguished leaders of the present Neo-realistic movement which is a reaction against the old extremes of naturalism and idealism. His most brilliant works, "Principia Mathematica" (1910) and "Problems of Philosophy" (1911) aroused a revolutionary enthusiasm among the Syounger and rising philosophers of the present generation. His visit will undoubtedly be a great factor in paving...
...military movement at Dartmouth has lately met with considerable opposition. A new organization, known as the Independence League, composed of some fifty undergraduates, is expressing its disapproval of introducing a military course into the regular college curriculum, and will begin the opposition campaign by taking a census of the undergraduates of the college upon the question of the introduction of military drill into the curriculum, hoping, thereby, to obtain sufficient data to make an intelligent report to the faculty committee that is investigating the matter. Each undergraduate will be presented with a blank which he will be asked to fill...
...recent open discussions compulsory membership for the Union has met with no opposition; but from scattered murmurs it becomes evident that a few do not favor the movement wholeheartedly. If a good pool is built in the Union, how many of the conservatives would consider compulsory membership an exorbitant demand? The proposed reduced fee would be money well spent if swimming facilities for a year were the only return...
From the necessity of such a request it is evident that some men are lagging. However sincere may have been the enthusiasm which produced the military movement at Harvard, as its novelty wears off, the crucial test of patriotic spirit appears...
...greatest need is a pool, not only for the team, but for hundreds of students. Through the efforts of Mr. E. H. Clark '96, a movement was started before mid-years to build a pool in the Union. Hoping to make practical use of the dormant gymnasium fund of $10,000, he sounded interested persons on the matter, and all favored the project. A Boston architect was consulted. Plans were drawn up for a regulation pool to fill the lower part of the Union. It was to be in Pompeiian style, to measure seventy-five by thirty feet, with over...