Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What was announced as the beginning of a nation-wide movement against the "cult of preparedness" which has sweeping the country was launched at Washington yesterday with the formation of the Anti-Militarism Committee which has opened headquarters in Washington and is said to be in close conference with the anti-preparedness minority in both the Senate and the House. It characterizes itself as a movement to "pretest against the attempts to stampede this nation into the adoption of a dangerous program of military and naval expansion...
...ninth annual convention of the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs will be held this year under the auspices of the Harvard Cosmopolitan Club in Cambridge, from December 27 to December 30. The president of the association is G. W. Nasmyth 3G., who has an international reputation in the cosmopolitan student movement...
There are many men in the University who would be glad to aid in this work, but such a movement does not arise spontaneously from "the peepul." Leadership is required, and the Federation is the logical body to lead. It has had a long sleep, and should have its strength sufficiently recuperated. The time is ripe for a revival, for a renewal of the work to nationalize Harvard College...
...arouse interest in military affairs, and to teach each individual how much there is to learn and how little he knows. It is hoped that the proposed scheme will create great interest in Plattsburg. In fact, the whole plan may be considered as a part of the general Plattsburg movement...
...source of legitimate satisfaction to Harvard men," concludes the writer whose nom de plume is 1898, "that its graduates should have taken so prompt and prominent a part in this patriotic movement." It would be well for students now in college to scan the record of those New York graduates who were the pioneers of Plattsburg...