Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...movement to popularize track athletics at Cornell and to encourage an even larger number of men to come out for the exercise, even if they fail to make the team, has been launched by the Cornell Track Association, with the approval and support of Coach John F. Moakley and faculty members on the Athletic Council. A series of weekly social gatherings for all students interested in outdoor exercise has been arranged. Last year Cornell had four hundred men out for track athletics, and it is expected that fully five hundred men will be enrolled this fall. Only a fraction...
This meeting will be held under the auspices of the "American Rights Committee," an organization which numbers among its members many graduates of the University. Its aim is to arouse interest in the movement which is going on all over the country to bring pressure to bear upon Congress to prevent the passage of the munitions embargo measure. A collection in aid of the American Ambulance in France will be taken. All members of the University are especially invited to attend...
Another matter in the Report of especial undergraduate interest is that of the military movement. President Lowell emphasizes again the danger of overestimating the value of winter drills; and he points out their futility unless reinforced by actual tactical training in summer camps. He expresses the fear that the humdrum of mere drilling may disgust men with a work in reality interesting. The organizers of the Regiment have taken the position that, on the contrary, winter drill would increase interest in military matters and the attendance at summer camps. This is the view with which General Wood is supporting...
...South America. And the southern republics should now see that the American navy may yet prove of great importance for their protection. It is fitting that Harvard, which with its new chair of Latin-American affairs is making a beginning in the educational part of the Pan-American movement, should be an object of inspection to the delegates. It would be highly desirable if an exchange of professors and students with universities of South America could result from this visit...
...Greater Boston League of Student Volunteers will meet in Peabody Hall of Phillips Brooks House this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, and all members of the University interested in any phase of foreign mission work are urged to attend. Mr. Russell and Miss Hagard, secretaries of the Student Volunteer Movement, will talk on the value of foreign missions...