Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good percentage of this mass movement towards certain fields of knowledge can be very definitely traced towards the language requirements, which stand like nearly unsurmountable barriers in the minds of a goodly proportion of the undergraduate body. The distributional courses, too, while not provocative of the same degree of unpleasantness as are the language requirements, have ensnared many an unsuspecting man in their toils...
...report was published [TIME, Nov. 4] told me that he would gladly exchange all Yale's purity for a good set of ends. . . .* We have long known that Yale teams were suffering from something and now this something appears to have been excessive purity. Already there is a movement afoot to add to Yale's motto, Lux et Veritas, the word Puritas. Later this year when you view the Yale team in action, I am happy to tell you that you will find the players appropriately arrayed in helmets of a glistening white...
This revival along with many others such as the English Madrigal Singers and the numerous societies for the restoration of buildings of architectural and historical interest, shows to what proportions the enthusiasm for the past has grown. Nor is this movement confined only to research in the work of former times. Frequently, in the last few years, organizations have been founded to preserve the characteristic art of the present time...
...collection of works mainly by Pablo Picasso, Andre Derain and Henry Matisse, leaders of the modern art movement, will comprise the greater part of the second exhibition this year held by the Contemporary Art Society in its rooms on the second floor of the Coop building. The showing which begins on Friday and will continue for two weeks is open to all members of the University and to the general public, of modern...
Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge announced that wheat prices were too low, ascribed this condition to two causes: 1) "Rapid and disorderly movement which is putting a large part of the year's supply on the market in a short time"; 2) "The unprecedented liquidation of industrial stocks and shrinkage in values within the last few days" (see page...