Word: movements
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strong country in the industrial as well as the martial world. We must conserve more and more of our natural resources and we must apply all our scientific knowledge to get the maximum output with minimum labor fatigue. Our universities can be the first to promote this nation-wide movement. Yale can be a leader of industrial preparedness just as it has been among the foremost in military preparedness. The combination of the two is the only true national service...
...University and Pennsylvania have had these clubs for some time, and the recent formation of the "Y" Club at Yale. gave fresh impetus to the movement. The chief purpose of the federation will be to promote more friendly relations between the athletes of the several colleges...
...question of universal military service is now before the nation; and with it the question whether the inauguration of universal service in America at this time will hinder the proposed movement toward world peace. Foreign nations would far more readily accept the American proposal if it were offered by a nation avowedly strong than if it were offered by a weak nation craving refuge from the fear of threatened war. Opponents of universal service may claim that America derives sufficient power from her voluntary system, but this claim would bear her little weight with foreign powers, the more important...
...expect to get a minimum number for the Plattsburg camps alone this year of over 25,000. In addition there will be a large number of boys in the junior camps, as so far at least 10,000 have applied. The history of the training camp movement shows a steady progress in numbers. The first year, 1913, the attendance only amounted to 222. The next year, 1914, the numbers increased to 667. In 1915 the first business men's camp' was held at Plattsbutg, and the total attendance was 3; 406. Last year the numbers had grown...
...Reports from Western cities indicate a movement to introduce professional football on a large scale East and West next season. It is said that certain major league magnates are considering a plan to employ their ball parks for football and to back the game financially, Professional football was played on Navin Field--the American Association grounds--in Detroit, last fall, and an agent of the Club is reported to have been in Chicago recently to enlist support for his undertaking from owners of major league clubs there. From Columbus and Indianapolis come reports of the impending formation of a professional...