Word: movement
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...MOVEMENT is on foot to establish a chess club in the College...
...will allow me to mention that the motive of most of the gentlemen who have contributed to this endowment was, I think, the support of theological teaching of a perfectly unsectarian character. That was precisely what interested them in this movement...
...list of Professors who have consented to give instruction in the proposed University for women appeared in the Woman's Journal, and has been widely copied. The list, however, was made without any authority, and is quite incomplete. With hardly an exception, the Professors regard the new movement with favor, and all those whose other duties will allow them are willing to give instruction, and some even offered their services gratuitously...
...many ignorant or prejudiced attacks, that wealth, though an advantage, was no sure stepping-stone to favor at Harvard, and that a lack of it is no hindrance to preference and position. My observation has abundantly convinced me of this, and I always refer to it with pride. Any movement from within or without tending to disturb this natural and healthy state of things by raising the artificial cry of alms or charity, where good sense and manliness discover only labor rewarded and ability recognized, should be most unsparingly denounced...
...great increase in the rent of desirable rooms. Now, if this latter policy is to be continued, - and, in view of the pecuniary necessities of the College, its wisdom is not disputed,- it is submitted, that to open scholarships to the competition of all would be precisely the counteracting movement which is emphatically called for. The present restrictions upon these emoluments are discouraging to the sons of professional men who are just holding their places in the bitter struggle for existence. More youths from this numerous class - and they are often the best material for education the land affords - would...