Word: movement
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...Harvard men's track team began a youth movement this year, but it also enjoyed some success along...
However, his successor, President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who replaced Eliot in 1909, led the movement for racially restrictive admissions at Harvard, supported by a majority of the alumni. Fearing that American political and social institutions could not survive in a heterogeneous society, Lowell attempted to enact a limit to the "proportion of Jews at the College," but was later rejected by the Overseers...
...crusade to prod his fellow students toward the progressivism their parents exhibited in the 1960s and 70s, Hennefeld may be fighting an uphill battle against 90s student apathy. But he and the members of the Progressive Students Labor Movement (PSLM), the activist group he founded at Harvard, think the fight is worth the trouble...
...defined himself as a political progressive, Hennefeld's interest in labor concerns did not begin until the summer of 1997, when he participated in a program in Atlanta, Georgia called "Union Summer," sponsored by the American Federation of Labor (AFL). He spent the summer researching issues surrounding the labor movement and learning the details of labor union work from behind the scenes...
...human rights movement is gaining a lot of momentum worldwide," Carr said. "But there is not a lot of university involvement yet, providing an analytical approach and telling us which strategies make the most sense. Every day when you read the newspaper, human rights is on the front page--this is the right time for the Kennedy School to weigh in on the subject...