Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sanford Bates, Commissioner of Corrections for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, began the discussion taking up the general subject from the legal point of view. Momentarily pausing to comment on the glories of the Boy Scout movement, he passed to the subject for discussion. He spoke of the law, as practiced in former years, as revolving wholly upon the question of responsibility, this theory being based upon the belief that man's will is supreme...
...country in Europe where poets have more influence upon their nation than in Ireland," said George William Russell, noted Irish poet and painter, known as "A. E.", in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter after his lecture and reading yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. "In every movement of national scope," he said, "the poets have been very active. I believe that in Ireland there will always be a race of heroic idealists. The poets in their imagination have connected earth imagination have connected earth with heaven...
...talk, Mr. Russell "spoke" several poems of his notable contemporaries in the modern Irish literary movement. Among the works recited were poems by William Butler Yeats, George Moore, and George Bernard Shaw...
Bingham declared that the primary, purpose of the Association for Appointment of Football Officials was to reduce the expenses of officiating. "We feel that the game of football will be benefited in two ways by the new movement," he said. "First, the plan will stabilize one of the weakest points in the present game--the haphazard appointment of officials. Secondly, the Association will offer its services to small colleges at a nominal fee, and will continue to pay four-fifths of the total expenses of operating the organization...
Addressing his audience on "Some Personalities of the Irish Literary Movement," George William Russell of Dublin, Ireland, wil give a lecture Friday at 4.30 o'clock in Room D, Emerson Hall...