Word: movements
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...colleges and universities that started the movement for the union were New England institutions and fully a score of our New England institutions are now identified with it. First, there is a home for college men passing through Paris or on furlough there; second, a headquarters for the bureaus of the individual colleges, many of which have representatives on the ground; third, it is a clearing house for information as to casualties, etc. On the first night that the Union opened in October the representatives of 30 colleges took rooms there. In the first three weeks men had registered from...
Thirty colleges and universities have already pledged their support to the movement and new institutions are daily being added to the list. Alumni associations of New England have been quick to endorse the plan as a patriotic substitute for the usual mid-winter banquet...
...Socialist League Meeting. Madame Aino Malmberg speaks on "The Russian Revolutionary Movement." Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House...
...nation-wide drive for increased membership in the American Red Cross will begin simultaneously in all the cities, towns and districts of the United States this morning, and as a part of this movement, an undergraduate campaign for membership will be launched in the University to last until Friday night. There are now five million members of the Red Cross in this country, and ten million new members, exclusive of renewals, are wanted in this drive scheduled for the week before Christmas. One million new members is the quota assigned to New England, outside of Connecticut; the University's share...
...Mott is the chance of a lifetime. Dr. Mott is an international figure: a man who knows the War and understands Y. M. C. A. work as no one else in the world. This Y. M. C. A. campaign next to the Liberty Loan is the most important movement for carrying on the War. All of us who have been to Government Camps realize how necessary the Y. M. C. A. is to the soldier. It is his home, his theatre and his club house; it is a place of rest after the chaos of trench life. Those who know...