Word: movement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...movement has been started to form a league of the cricket clubs within a radius of twenty miles of New York city...
...withdrawn. Last year the question of a dual league was proposed and unqualifiedly rejected. Has college opinion completely changed? The only thing to cause such a change was Princeton's action last fall. We expressed our dissatisfaction at this by withdrawing from the foot ball league. Yet even this movement was not at all unanimous at the time, and within two weeks after, many men expressed their regret for having voted for it. Are we going to be so childish as to let a momentary ill-feeling carry us to the extreme of refusing to have anything more...
...annual reunion and dinner of the Brown University club in New York last Friday evening it was announced that a movement is on foot to raise one hundred thousand dollars for the university. Thirty-five thousand has already been pledged, and it is expected that the remainder will be raised in a short time. The fund will known as the Professor Lincoln fund, Professor Lincoln being the oldest member of the faculty...
...Hapgood contributes a thoughtful paper entitled "Zola's Attack on the Modern Drama." He shows development of the drama through the nine tenth century and the deterioration from art to "movement." His argument is strong; but his views are perhaps a little too gloomy...