Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunity for a constructive theatrical movement at Harvard is undoubtedly large, and there is every reason to believe that, should some purely dramatic movement get started, it would meet with success. It is not that the Dramatic Club is inherently inefficient, but that the very nature of such a large organization dependent on gate receipts, prevents them from devoting their entire attention to producing plays whose only recommendation is dramatic excellence. If a movement should be developed which would not find it necessary to be greatly concerned with financial gain and the inclusion of many members in the casts...
Lest this new movement sound far too idealistic to be of practical importance, it is of importance to note that the theory of alumni education has already been adopted in one form or another at several colleges in this country. and with the most gratifying results. Such contacts have taken the form of reading lists as at. Dartmouth, and alumni short term sessions as at Lafayette, and in every case the response by the alumni to such efforts on the part of the college has shown that alumni education is a field which is pregnant with possibilities, but which...
...Oxford we have only one professor of modern English literature in the entire university," continued Professor Garrod, "so that Professor Lowes will in reality be an additional lecturer in English literature. He will, however, be the only outstanding teacher of the moment whose particular interest is in the Romantic movement...
...fools that finally tapped a layer of stop loss orders, whether the some what uncertain business conditions that appeared in September particularly in the direction of automobiles, "specialties" and rubber brought the shift in public opinion, whether the recent discussion of the Massachusetts, Public Utilities' Commission unsettled the upward movement, or whether the Bank of England's raising its rate a month ago exerted the final pressure that broke the market is in a sense an academic question...
...Relation of French Revolution to Intellectual Movement of the Time". Professor Brinton, Harvard...