Word: moves
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which the Co-operative was saved an inglorious fall, is good evidence of how the society was appreciated. But let this appreciation be shown this year, and at once. Hearty and immediate support is the society's due. Harvard interests and Harvard pride should be enough to move every man in Harvard University to become a member of Harvard's most useful society. Freshmen who are at all reluctant about becoming members may well do away with all their reluctance, and feel assured that in joining the Co-operative Society they are doing what they can never regret...
Several years ago the University of the city of New York made a move in this direction, and Yale took the matter under consideration, but nothing was done. Cornell also agitated the matter, and the result at the present time is a course of lectures by a well known New York journalist. A thorough familiarity with the party-history of the country, and with the general history of the country and of the world, together with a knowledge of Common, Constitutional, International Law, Political Economy, Logic, Principles of Criticism, English Literature, and the French and German languages, are given...
...sake carry to its full application the distinctive feature of the American Congress, the standing committee system. Our new plan works well; men always come to debate on the occasion of a ministerial crisis, while mere abstract interest in the question under discussion has been found generally unable to move them. Each party in the House always feels itself called upon to put forth its most strenuous efforts, the opposition to win the honors, the ministry to retain them. All this adds a color to the contests, in which we also receive training in parliamentary law and "practice in politics...
...those of the State on the other, was presented to the company by the ladies of Cambridge. The members of the Corps were all taken from the senior and junior classes. Its armory was in the top story of Hollis for many years, till it was thought best to move it to University. Although one of the finest and best drilled companies in the State, the only service it ever performed was practicing on exhibition days, and when the peace of 1815 was declared, firing a salute. In 1825 it was reorganized for the second time. How long...
...critical sense. But if it be said that the sublimity and complexity of King Lear render any representation of it necessarily inadequate, it follows that there is a fatal flaw and self contradiction at the foundation of Shakspere's art. For if his living pictures cannot be made to move across the stage in all the telling truth of their contrast and variety,- Shakspere missed his vocation. He should have written poems or novels, not plays...