Word: movements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...address to the alumni in behalf of the fund for the new gymnasium have sent the address, which was printed in the News a few days ago, to all the Alumni Associations and to many individual alumni. Already several replies have been received expressing warm sympathy with the movement and giving assurance of material aid. The executive committee of the New York Association have ordered the address printed and sent to each member. Mr. Johnes, '73, who has already volunteered to pay the architect's bill is a member of this Association...
...growth of Yale and Harvard may be found in the Nation of February 18th. Taking, as a basis, the catalogues of the academic departments only, the writer shows the steady increase of the latter and the decline of the former. Graphic tables are employed which show a continuous upward movement for Harvard, while Yale, after many fluctuations, takes a downward turn from 1882 to 1885. In 1885 Yale entered 22 students less than in 1865. Harvard, on the other hand, entered 133 more. From such a standpoint, the writer's presentation of the case is impregnable, but it is misleading...
...power of the people to establish that form of society which would bring the greatest prosperity and happiness to the human race. The influence of so large a number of resolute, able men, well educated, and fitted in every way to be the leaders of a great popular movement, must be regarded as a powerful and significant factor in the tremendous problems of social life, and the opinions and character of these students can not fail to be of great interest to all who sympathize with the oppressed and down-trodden of the earth...
...Churchill, '86, and W. F. Austin, '89, next appeared, and after a hard struggle, Churchill started his man toward the floor when the latter, by a quick and skillful movement swung from under and rolled Churchill on his back. Time...
...home pouring over some book which might as well be read at any other time. Lectures are now recognized by all students as of paramount importance; the series now being given at Harvard by eminent men on the various professions proves that the students are deeply interested in any movement calculated to increase their power to obtain knowledge...