Word: movements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...movement is on foot to form another prayer petition greater than last year...
There is a movement on foot for a new chapel petition. It will be essentially the same as the one presented to the faculty last year. A thorough canvass of the college will be made...
...found in the tone of the oboe over what has been heard before, which contributed not a little to the general. As regards the Eroica, the writer certainly never heard a better performance. So perfectly was the comper's idea expressed that toward the close of the second movement the intensity of feeling became almost painful. The scherzo, following this, makes so much of a contrast that it hardly seems in keeping with the rest of the symphony. The fifth symphony of Beethoven presents a much better example of a consistent whole, resting on a psychological. In it the name...
...study and mutual improvement. Such societies cast aside the element of selfishness, and recognize and advance the element of generosity, of intellectual democracy, and the men who faithfully support them are helping themselves, and are helping also to improve and elevate the intellectual life of this college. Only the movements by associations, by clubs and societies, can really make a higher atmosphere. A single man's movement, unless made in conjunction with other men, nine cases out of ten amounts to nothing. If Harvard is to be an intellectual centre, her supporters must work together...
...much more character than the first. The scope of its contents is broader. A more marked personality distinguishes it. The field covered by the different articles includes the historic, the critical, the imaginative, the analytic, the poetic. Prof. Sanborn contributes a testimony of Harvard's part in the movement of emancipation. His words bring before the undergraduates of to-day a picture of noble work, and lead them to look forward with sturdier ambitions. All, however, will not see the paradoxical feature of Harvard's reputation. To many, Harvard may be conservative, but to more the Harvard...