Word: movements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...task on which President Lowell officially enters today is to be of vital interest to Harvard, and through Harvard to the educational world. American colleges and universities are in the swing of a great movement which is bringing them increase in numbers, in wealth, and in power. It is given to the president of this University to be one of those who direct this movement, and to guide it wisely is a work than which none is more important...
...spring of 1908 a movement of considerable importance was initiated by a group of members of the Association. As a result a series of meetings of strictly evangelical character was conducted under the auspices of the Association, and although some opposition was raised on the ground that they laid too great emphasis on the theological tenets of christianity, yet, in the light of the year's work that followed, it has been well proved that they drew a group of men who would not otherwise have been reached...
...then after a short period of examinations the College year will be over. The questions which have been discussed during the term have been in a few instances favorably decided, but many of the live issues raised have been allowed practically to die out. What looked like a successful movement in the direction of a new Gymnasium has apparently entirely dropped from the attention of the undergraduates. We do not know whether the Corporation is considering the problem; we only hope that it is, for by a decision there we could get something definite done. But it was felt...
...sake, such as an especially qualified person may some day undertake. It comes "as an homage of Germany to President Eliot . . . and at the same time to America in the person of her representative educator." It "should be regarded as a fruit of the intellectual exchange movement between Germany and America...
...been shown at other places that most of the heavyweight wrestlers come from the football squad. As regards the benefit of this work for such men we quote one of the leaders in the movement here: "Wrestling is the best means of developing fast, hard line-men, for it not only teaches one to size up an opponent quickly and to use one's power to the best advantage, but it develops a control of the muscles that cannot be obtained in football practice. It is individual coaching of the kind that even the best university players seldom receive...