Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...short-history of minor athletics in Harvard is comprehensive, but fails to give any impulse toward the connection of minor sports with the movement for increased numbers of participants in regular physical recreation. It might well have mentioned the recent class in general athletics for Freshmen as a step toward increasing the scope of athletic influences...
...indications which we see are true, hints taken from perusals of our exchanges and from conversations with "foreign" visitors, there is a broad movement on foot among our colleges to spur men to higher scholarship. We believe that the greatest effect on the scholarship standard will be secured only when the prod is applied long before the men reach college, but we believe as firmly that a good deal can be done after they get there. If the Senior advisers, realizing as almost every Senior does that he is here to study, would seriously impress that idea upon their wards...
...others. They are Professor Baker, the Harvard Dramatic Club and the English 47 Workshop. As for the first, little need be said. Professor Baker's reputation as a teacher and critic of dramatic composition is almost international, and without doubt he has been the greatest single factor in the movement at Harvard. His work has been greatly assisted by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which was founded in the spring of 1908 by E. B. Sheldon, R. E. Rogers, D. Carb and others, for the purpose of giving original plays by Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates and recent graduates. It has been...
...education is to be undertaken by the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in the adoption of a line of special training, designed to train young men for the work of secretaries of chambers of commerce and similar voluntary trade bodies. Recently there has been a wide-spread movement in this country to form local chambers of commerce and boards of trade and to revive the activity of those already existing. The establishment of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America has given these organizations a forward impulse, and it is because of this development that...
Since entering public life in the United States, Mr. Berger has been editor of the Milwaukee Leader and the Socialist Democrat Herald. He figured prominently in the movement three years ago which secured the political control of Milwaukee for his party. As congressman, Mr. Berger was instrumental in bringing up the questions of freedom of association for postal employees, old age pensions, and government ownership of telegraphs...