Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...movement that may culminate in putting the united influence of the great universities of England behind the military education of the young men of the kingdom has just had its inception at Cambridge University, where twelve prominent professors have joined in a proposal that no undergraduate shall receive a degree until he has at least attained efficiency as a member of the Officers' Training Corps or Territorial Force. Sixty-three members of the university senate, the governing body, have approved the idea and have arranged to confer with Oxford with a view to obtaining its co-operation. Going still further...
...technicalities and desire to continue the individual traditions. The Forum believed that while the functions of the Illustrated differ from those of the other magazines, personal differences and trivial points in regard to the make-up of a general-literary publication could be over-looked in a wide-spread movement to relieve of their present burden the advertisers and subscribers. The result of this discussion was a resolution asking the publication committee of the Student Council, composed of the presidents of the magazines, to draw up plans for a union of at least two of the papers...
...recognition of the fact that the requirements for admission to Yale College and Sheffield Scientific School put a premium on special training and cramming, a joint committee of the two undergraduate faculties has recommended drastic modification of the present system. This is another phase of that movement that began here at Harvard to bring the college into closer relations with preparatory and public schools throughout the country and to set the entrance examinations so that a general knowledge of certain broad fields of study would suffice to pass them. The successful working of the new plan at Harvard was shown...
...past, as some maintain, and depended for its constituency on a particular section, the successful application of the new admission plan has opened the gates to men from all parts and all schools, and the development of Harvard into a great national university is well under way. The movement toward nationalization is attended by innovations designed to generalize and co-ordinate intellectual work. The new plan of concentration in a particular field of study, and the introduction of oral examinations in French and German seek to give students a rational scheme of intellectual work and the ability to transcend...
Professor Bergson concluded modestly in stating that whereas it remains to religion to speak authoritatively on the basis of a revelation of the origin and end of man, the philosophy of change conceiving life as a movement, a perpetual creation, evidently tends to reassure man as to his immortality...