Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...custom. Before 1911 the Yard dormitories were inhabited by members of various classes, all intermingled. Often a member of a class lived in an entry in which there were none of his classmates and the unity of all classes was thus seriously impaired. L. Withington '11 led the movement which resulted in the occupation of Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, and Thayer by members of the Senior class. Since that time the custom has been kept and rooms in these dormitories have been allotted by a class committee in groups of from two to twelve. Showers have been...
...Ernest Thompson Seton spoke in the Living Room of the Union last night on "The Message of the American Indian." In the course of his talk he discussed the boy scout movement in its relation to old Indian customs and methods. Declaring that the day of the old-fashioned Indian was past, Mr. Seton told of the ridiculous efforts of the missionaries who strove to turn the Indians from a religion which they themselves often believed. Mr. Seton ended his lecture by predicting that the Government would in time learn to treat the Indian with proper respect, leaving them their...
...Park rested her case for equal suffrage on the premises of democracy and the "woman movement," cleverly defining the latter as "the recent discovery on the part of a large number of women that they belong to the human race instead of being merely a Ladies Aid Society...
...Alumni Civic Service Committee will deliver a special ballot to every Senior voter at the polls today. The purpose of this ballot is to ascertain the form of community service in which each man will be interested after graduation. This movement among the graduates was started several years ago and its object is to utilize the training acquired in work such as Phillips Brooks House offers, in similar service after graduation...
...movement is on foot to re-instate football at Columbia...