Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement, however, appears to have been limited to the awarding of class numerals to teams which have won a University championship, and no alteration of the insignia awards to minor sports teams has been made, although changes have frequently been suggested in different meetings of the Minor Sports Council. Already there are a large number of universities which have abolished the distinction between a major and minor letter, the University of Pennsylvania being one of the leaders in this field in the East, and in almost every case there has been a noticeable increase in the participation in minor sports...
...larger implications this movement is of the greatest importance. One foreign scholarship which brings a specially qualified student to this country to study can accomplish more than any number of meetings of peace societies in which outlawry of war is discussed. It is to be hoped that with the increasing amount of attention that is being given to international relations there will be a greater number of people with sufficient foresight to continue this work which the late Mr. Holtzer has so admirably assisted...
...this is of particular moment to the world because the recent crisis in the activities of the Experts' Committee now meeting in Paris has been reflected in Germany in accelerated outflow of gold, and the adverse movement of the foreign exchanges...
...talking pictures, and similar manifestations of science in the fields of entertainment and communication. Thus Kolster stock boomed. Lately, however, worried by the Federal Reserve Board and its anti-speculation activities, frightened by untrue rumors of a great Kolster deficit, California operators began to sell Kolster short. This bear movement was strengthened by the Kolster report which showed, indeed, no deficit, but small earnings. It should not be concluded, however, that Kolster radios sold poorly in 1928 or that its 1928 earnings are indicative of a bad 1929. During 1928, Kolster showed a 43% increase in gross sales...
From India to Canada came swart, white-bearded Sir Rabindranath Tagore. From London came the British Broadcasting Co.'s Education Director J. C. Stobart. From-Czechoslovakia came interpreters of the famed-"Sokol movement" for national physical education. Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan sent representatives. So did Australia and New Zealand. No U. S. educators were officially present, although two were invited from the Adult Education Association; but their absence in no way diminished the grand manner or the importance of the meeting last week in Victoria and Vancouver of the Canadian National Council of Education...