Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...another page we print a communication questioning the policy of Harvard in offering its support to a military or naval reserve on the ground that it detracts from the support which the University should give to the movement for international peace and the settlement of international disputes by arbitration. As expressing the views of a large number of men and as contrasted in sentiment with the enthusiasm with which the proposition of Captain Marsh was generally received, the communication is interesting as indicative of the diversity of student interests and opinions...
...Christian Association will be held in the Parlor of Brooks House at 10 o'clock instead of the usual hour of 10.15. The discussion is to be on foreign missions and will be led by Mr. P. A. S. Swartz, one of the traveling secretaries of the Students' Missionary Movement. All members of the University are invited to attend the meeting...
...subject of yesterday's lecture was "The Problem of Evil." Mr. Tagore said in part: life is essentially in motion and evil helps to draw it forward. But too often we exaggerate its importance by regarding it as static. The true movement of life is towards the enlargement of itself; selfishness may be regarded as the basic cause of evil, and society having thus gotten out of gear, we are obliged to use coercion to maintain order. Evil proves the dignity of life in that it is the right of man to suffer, but it is the duty...
...Harvard, so comprehensive an institution would now be an impossibility. Many organizations do not need such a home. But there are some organizations, notably the Musical Club, the various language societies, the school and territorial clubs, and others whose present quarters in dormitory rooms are cramped and unsatisfactory. The movement of the Federated Territorial Clubs to secure permanent quarters in the Union is an initial expression of dissatisfaction with old conditions. For many now nomadic organizations, a building specially equipped to receive them would mean new life, new opportunity. As the University grows the Union will not be able...
...figures and find that 305 out of a class of 420 have shown wisdom enough to choose to live their Senior year in the Yard. Last year there were two hundred and eighty wise men and that was considered a bewilderingly large proportion. Such impetus has the movement that now anything seems possible for next year...