Word: movement
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...three-fold capacity as an organizing power for the "Harvard forward" movement in Boston, as an entertainer of the University's guests and especially as host to various groups of members of the University, the Harvard Club of Boston has become an in valuable aid to the institution to which it owes allegiance. In its first year of active existence it exerted a strong influence in bringing together the many graduates in the vicinity of Boston and in associating them more closely with the University, two achievements of great benefit to the undergraduates and to the University at large. Moreover...
...very brief outline of the municipal conditions which produced the movement toward the commission system of city government...
...Chapman's special plaint is that "the whole body of graduates is being organized in a Harvard service, to employ Harvard men, to advertise Harvard, to make converts, to raise money, to assist in a general Harvard forward movement." As specific instances of the depraved advertising methods to which our governing bodies have had recourse in their efforts to keep Harvard numerically in the lead, Mr. Chaplian cites the use of the University's name in connection with President Eliot's edition of the classics, the "Joan of Arc" performance in the Stadium, the honors which were paid to President...
...changes wrought in the college have weakened the old solidarity and unity of aim, they have let in light and air. They have given us a freedom of movement needed for further progress. May we not say of the extreme elective system what Edmond Sherer said of democracy; that it is but one stage in an irresistible march toward an unknown goal? Progress means change, and every time of growth is a transitional era; but in a peculiar degree the present state of the American college bears the marks of a period of transition. This is seen in the comparatively...
...Steel '11, is not only witty, but really refreshingly thoughtful. In a humorous way it points a moral which, with modifications, may be safely commended to Freshmen. There is a good conception, likewise in the drawing of "The Pioneers," greeting the rising sun of the new administration; and the movement of the silhouetted figures is excellent. The frontispiece by Williams '11 has a certain grim humor. The tail-piece is charming. As a whole, the number is conscientious; but unlike the gentleman on the cover, we have not split our sides laughing...