Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the recent agitation on the part of members of the University to secure the franchise at the past election, a movement of very great interest and one likely to lead to important results has been undertaken by the students of the University of Michigan. The exact nature of the proposal and the system by which it is hoped to operate it are summarized in the following quotation from the Cornell Daily...
...done, and now Harvard men may witness the first five games at moderate cost and find seats together in regular cheering sections. Such an arrangement guarantees that the support of the hockey team will attain even greater proportions than last year, when the sport became so popular that a movement was started to place it on a par with the present major sports. This increased popularity of the sport led to the demand for closer co-operation between the Arena and the Harvard management, the realization of which deserves our heartiest praise...
...idea familiar to all men in College. Nevertheless, a certain amount of interest must be overcome and the details of the plan worked out. Each class entering the Yard has sought to do something toward improving the dormitories. Last year, it was proposed to install electric lights, but the movement got underway too late to reach any successful conclusion. This year, however, by prompt action, such improvements may be effected...
...subject of Senior dormitories will be discussed at the Junior class smoker tomorrow evening. The speakers will be three men who are exceptionally well qualified to talk on the subject and to whom the success of the movement for the union of the Senior class in the Yard has been largely due--President Lowell L. Withington '11, and P. L. Wendell...
...eight months' trip through the East, spending no small proportion of that time in China and Japan. The trip was made at the invitation of the executive committee of the Carnegie Peace Foundation, of which he is a trustee, and was primarily in the interests of the international peace movement. President Eliot, however, did not confine himself entirely to that phase of the journey, and was able to make extensive researches on matters of general social and economic importance. Thus his knowledge of the subject on which he is to speak this afternoon has been gained from personal acquaintance with...