Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Higginson '55 addressed the members of the University Regiment assembled in uniform at the Union yesterday evening and officially started the lecture series to the 1100 student volunteers. Captain Cordier introduced General Wood, who has just returned from a trip in the South for the purpose of extending the movement toward preparedness...
...officers of the South," said General Wood, "favor a transfer of the militia into a Federal force. Such a transfer would mean a great gain in military strength and increased efficiency in the militia. The University Regiment has attracted widespread interest among Southern colleges, and has started a national movement for a strong body of reserve officers. The field is not only a large one, but an exceptionally good one, and our aim shall be now to continue organizing and recruiting until a body of 50,000 officers is available...
...Regiment and is coming to Boston from New York after a trip in the South for the special purpose of speaking this afternoon. He is keeping in touch with the progress of the Regiment and firmly believes that its success will have far-reaching effects upon the preparedness movement, especially among other colleges...
...order to make the preparedness movement in the University something more than an ephemeral interest in drilling, a course of lectures in military science has been arranged for the second half-year. To accomplish its object--certainly constructive and essential--the course must be taken by all men qualified to count it toward a degree, and attended by as many others as possible. The lectures will cover the most interesting phase of military training; and those who have done the most irksome part at the summer camps or in the state militias, will not reap the greatest possible benefit...
...party of students were representatives of International Polity Clubs in about ten Universities. Though no definite plans were formulated, considerable propaganda work was done among the foreign students along the line of the International Policy Club movement which is spreading rapidly among American universities and colleges. We often found, among the foreign students, a hearty response to the idea of some sort of World Federation of Students...