Word: movements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Monday evening, April 15, the international views of the Peace Movement will be discussed. The speaker for America will be the Honorable Oscar S. Strauss, Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for France, Baron d'Estournelles de Constant; for England, Sir Robert Cranston, ex-Lord provost of Edinburgh; for Germany, Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard; for Belgium, Baron Descamps, the secretary of state; for Holland, Mr. Maarten Maartens...
...conference assembles for the purpose of considering the special work of the president as the leader of the Student Christian Association activities, and to bring the leaders of the Eastern College Associations into the friendly contact necessary for the proper unity of the movement. The discussions will be led by successful presidents of previous years, by general secretaries, and by secretaries related to the general student movement. Addresses will be delivered by President Schurman and Professor Jenks of Cornell, and Rev. F. Boyd Edwards of Princeton...
...donor of the Union and of Soldiers Field, but as a strong factor in a great number of ways at Harvard. He has for some time been of great assistance in the maintenance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and has long been a leader in every public-spirited movement in Boston...
...concluding, Mr. Riis urged that college men should aid in this movement to uplift the masses in our large cities. It should be an essential part of the creed of all people, he said, that we are our 'brothers' keepers and are responsible for their lives and deeds, especially when we are cognizant of their need for help...
...Riis is an authority on this phase of the social question in America. He was born in Denmark, but came to this country when a young man and became police reporter for the New York Sun. Since then he has been active in the movement for establishing small parks and playgrounds within city limits, and has been instrumental in many movements toward tenement house and school reforms. During the years 1896 and 1897, Mr. Riis was one of the executive officers of the Good Government Clubs, and in 1897 was secretary of the New York Small Parks Commission...