Word: movements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long agitation of the matter the two literary societies have united in forming the Williams College congress. The 'Logian Society acts as the senate and the 'Technian as the house of representatives. The U. S. Congress is taken as the model and closely followed in all its workings. The movement has awakened a new interest in the societies, attracting a largely increased membership in each. Thus far the success of the plan has fully met the expectations of its originators, and seems now to give promise of being a permanent success...
...unabated. The ball nine will go into regular daily training in the gymnasium next term, and it is expected that Keefe will drill them for a couple of weeks in the spring. A new campus will be fitted up in the spring and an earnest and enthusiastic movement made to "boom" our nine...
...take this opportunity, when the enthusiasm of the game is still fresh, and when several months' space can be granted the tennis association to negotiate with the associations of other colleges, to advocate the project again. The sentiment here is, we think, strongly in favor of such a movement, and, by the statements of our exchanges, we are lead to believe there is an equal interest at Yale and Princeton and several other colleges. There seem few obstacles to the realization of this scheme, if it can be carried out officially and promptly. By taking immediate action, full arrangements will...
...effective in its influence it must be an association thoroughly representative of all our larger universities - not a small clique from one or two colleges. Cornell, Columbia, Williams and Ann Arbor have signified their willingness to send representatives. Harvard, we think, would undoubtedly join in the movement. If now favorable responses can be obtained from Princeton, Yale, Brown and Dartmouth, we see no reason why active measures for the formation of the association should not be begun. If the representation at first is small and confined to the aforenamed colleges, it will not matter; the experiment could thus the more...
...play a much poorer game than at present, and probably would not meet as good amateur nines as Harvard has at hand, still there is no excuse in either statement for Yale's not taking the opportunity here offered to join the other colleges of New England in their movement to rid athletics of an evident evil. No one who takes a proper view of baseball cares about the absolute excellence of our nine's playing or wishes to see it equal that of a professional nine; all that the nine itself professes to care about, and certainly all that...