Word: movement
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following members of the University will go as representatives from the University Christian Association to the sixth International Convention, of the Student Volunteer Movement to be held in Rochester, New York, from December 29, 1909, to January...
After the affiliation of the European and the American organizations, the international society will adopt the name. Federation Internationelle des Etudiants. The stated object of this consolidation is "the propaganda of the world peace movement." Under the direction of an executive committee from the international federation semi-monthly and annual publications will be issued setting forth the progress of the work...
...program of the three days' convention of the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs, to be held at Cornell University from Wednesday to Friday of this week, suggests the importance which attaches to the cosmopolitan movement. There are twenty-three American chapters in the Association, and it is now proposed to establish relations with similar student organizations of European universities. A feature of the meeting will be the breaking of ground for a new club house for the Cornell chapter...
...been the aim of the international organization everywhere. At different places this ideal is sought in different ways; at Cornell, for instance, a residence building has been thought necessary. In this University more modest methods have sufficed. It is still too soon for the full effects of the cosmopolitan movement to be evident; it is not too much to say, however, that it will promote the interchange of students between countries and in some measure aid the cause of international harmony...
...expectation of new buildings for the chemistry department which the present movement holds out is good news for Harvard men. The inadequacy of the existing accommodations has long been a vexation to students and instructors who have been obliged to work in the Boylston and Dane laboratories, and has been disagreeably apparent to others by the odors which have emanated from those places. The prospect of relief from these unsavory conditions is welcome...