Word: movements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Shingles for the Taft Club will be on sale this afternoon from 3 until 6 o'clock in Holworthy 4. Any member of the University may obtain a shingle on paying the assessment of 25 cents and signing the constitution. Those wishing to be identified with the movement to secure the Republican presidential nomination for Hon. William H. Taft are requested to join this organization at once. Members from both the Law and Graduate Schools are desired as well as undergraduates...
...result of public opinion which has been steadily rising throughout the country, and as a direct consequence of Mr. Clark's lecture in the Union last Thursday on the "Congo Reform Movement," a petition to President Roosevelt has been formulated by the Congo Association, and posted in the office of the Union for the signatures of those interested...
...Joseph Clark, for many years a missionary in Congo, gave a very interesting lecture in the Union last evening on the "Congo Reform Movement." The lecture was illustrated by the stereopticon, and the slides showing the dismembered victims of King Leopold's cruelty bore out the lecturer's testimony of the horrible atrocities committed...
Secretary Root has been actively interested in the conditions in the Congo, and Governor Curtis Guild '81, James J. Storrow '85 and Henry L. Higginson h.'82, are also supporters of this movement...
...Clark has been intimately connected with the Congo movement for twenty-seven years. He was a missionary there under the direction of the Livingstone Inland Mission and later of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and was one of the principal witnesses before King Leopold's Commission of Inquiry. On this occasion he testified regarding the horrible atrocities perpetrated by the Belgian government to wring money from the natives...