Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report issued last month, the Faculty men in charge of the plan expressed complete satisfaction with the union's judgment in picking their representatives. "Certainly the men are of the executive and leader type," this report states," and their ability gives them a promising future in the labor movement....The quality of the class work done by the Trade Union Fellows has been of a high order. Although the unions were urged to select prospective men of affairs rather than men of the scholar type, the men have shown excellent capacity to handle book material. Their industrial background has stood...
Several critics have made the point that Harvard is doing the union movement a great service through this plan, giving the impression that it is a one-sided affair. Nothing could be further from the truth. Not only are the expenses of the Fellows and half of their tuition paid by the unions, but the original impetus and idea for the plan came form the trade unions. Although the idea was the conceived by the unions in 1941, it was only after months of planning and consultation on both sides that President Conant, in January, 1942, gave his approval...
...first time in history, last week, a certain measure of clinical objectivity was brought to bear on the work of famed Evangelist Frank ("Soul Surgeon") Buchman, founder of the movement variously known as "The Oxford Group," "A First Century Christian Fellowship" and "Moral Re-Armament (MRA)."* An investigate tabulated the results of a questionnaire he had sent 92 men & women who had come into contact with Buchmanism an average of 18 years ago-whose acquaintance with it is a little out of date but who have had the opportunity for a long-range view. The investigator: Walter H. Clark...
...Only 12% of those responding were still active in the movement...
...When asked "Did the movement add anything to your intellectual equipment?" 45% said no and "only seven answered yes and at the same time supplied convincing illustration." One man declared that while he was a Buchmanite, "thinking seemed to me atheism." Said another: "I put my trust in guidance and failed my examinations...