Word: movements
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...religious problems in the Universities, and who have taken an active interest in helping to solve them. Among the more prominent speakers in the past have been Mr. J. R. Mott, associate general secretary of the International Y. M. C. A.; R. E. Speer, travelling secretary of the Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions; Dr. H. S. Coffin, of New York; E. C. Carter '00; Bishop William Lawrence '71; Dr. John Kelman, of Edinburgh; Professor E. I. Bosworth, of Oberlin College; Rev. J. T. Stone, of Baltimore...
...work of the president as the leader of the student Christian Association activities; to discuss thoroughly and informally the various phases of the work; and to bring the leaders of the eastern college associations into that intimate and friendly contact which is necessary for the proper unity of the movement. The discussions will be led by successful presidents of former years, and by other officers who are related to the general student movement...
...delivered by one of the most prominent members of that body. Congressman McCall has shown that devotion to high ideals may be effectually combined with a practical sense of the best methods of reform, and by his personal integrity and fearless convictions he has become a leader in the movement for honesty in government. The recent offer of the presidency of Dartmouth was a high tribute to his varied achievements...
...various forms of missionary work, both home and foreign, to college men. Among these letters are requests from Mr. George Gleason '97, who has charge of Y. M. C. A. work in Osaka, Japan; from Bishop Stringer of Ontario, Canada; and from Dr. Samuel Zwemer of the Student Volunteer Movement in New York City...
...Kaltenborn pictures a great newspaper run and operated by the University, partly as an example of what a great university ought to be, and partly as a great school of practical journalism. It is a well-written plea for what the author is pleased to call a new movement in education. There is undoubtedly a movement toward making all instruction objective and practical. Mr. von Kaltenborn's plan looks in that direction. There is also a movement toward restricting a school or a college to those parts of any subject which a school or college can teach. Mr. von Kaltenborn...