Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...late years it has received increasing attention and support. The prosperity of the Musical Clubs, the abundance of excellent recitals and symphonic concerts in Cambridge, the founding of the Harvard Opera Association and of the unique Harvard Musical Review, have all been recent developments of prime significance in the movement toward a better appreciation of music. Concurrent with these things has come a corresponding increase in the number and enrollment of the University music courses...
...large number of men who specialize in the department of Political Economy, it is safe to predict that the formation of an Undergraduate Economics Society will meet the approval and support of a great many undergraduates. It is one of the pleasing signs of the times that the movement for the formation of this society has come from the undergraduates themselves and represents their interest in matters intellectual. It is a sign, too, that the student does not stand aloof, a privileged and disinterested member of society, but shows he is vitally interested in the problems and difficulties...
...informal discussions and addresses by prominent authorities with, from time to time, a variation in the way of music and similar diversions. It is also a strictly-student undertaking and as such deserves the support of the student body. Let all enrolled in the undergraduate economic courses assist the movement with their hearty co-operation and let them all, so far as possible, be on band next Wednesday evening at 8.15 in the Trophy Room of the Union for a short organization meeting. FRANCIS H. EVANS...
That the Christmas trip of the Musical Clubs to the South and Middle West did much to arouse interest in Harvard and thus aid the movement started by the territorial clubs has been abundantly testified since the Clubs' return. President Lowell has received many letters both from the Harvard clubs and from individuals in the cities visited which are unanimous in expressing praise of the clubs and show that the impression created was in all cases favorable to the University's interests...
...order to provide for these students, fifty per cent at Michigan, who are not residents of the state, Professor Walton H. Hamilton, who is active in pushing the measure, suggests that all of the big universities unite in a national movement and secure similar laws in all of the states...