Word: movements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tariff reform meeting which is to be held in Tremont Temple next Friday evening is the first appearance before the public of the tariff reform association of Harvard University. The movement has been made systematically, and the organization is already well established. The association has met with such encouragement among the alumni of the University that it has every reason to expect not only permanent existence, but even a real influence in political affairs. The names of the vice presidents will be sufficient to create respect for the movement, and the graduate speakers have already made their reputations as exponents...
...life, who desires to make the most of himself, will increase his chances, if not make his fortune, by practicing total abstinence. Second, he showed that the cause was fostered by the growing unity which is becoming apparent, of all the forces in any way in sympathy with the movement. He cited the city of Cambridge as an example of what unity can do, where two years ago there were one hundred and twenty-two saloons and today perhaps nineteen. Finally he said that if anything was to be accomplished there could not be a congregation of good...
...paper entitled "The Religious Crisis," written by "One of the Committee, " is an interesting review of the experiments in religious work tried by the undergraduates last winter. It is a semi-official statement of the motives which led to the movement among the students which culminated in the series of meetings held at the Globe Theatre. The writer gives an estimate of the result of those meetings, an estimate in our opinion perfectly just. He urges either that the meetings be repeated under somewhat different plans, or that some more practical scheme of work be suggested immediately. The writer...
...Seaport Town." The description of the old decaying seaport town is charmingly written. The verse of the number consists of two college "poems" and a hunting song-"In Exmoor." Though the theme is an old one, it is well treated. The lines have a splendid galloping movement...
...willingness on the part of the corporation is a most favorable sign. President Dwight is said to be in full sympathy with the movement...