Word: charter
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...first appear for an examination of the present enrolment at Harvard shows that the Freshman Class numbers 950, and the Senior Class just under 600. Nevertheless the spirit behind the suggestion is unmistakable. What Oregon is probably forced only to recommend because of the limitations of her state charter and what Professor Root wishes is the transformation of the first two years of the college course into an elimination contest with highly limited enrolment in the latter two years and a constantly extending tutorial system which should largely supplant the old course and lecture method...
Richard M. Gummere of the Penn Charter School of Philadelphia, will then speak in memory of the late Colonel William R. Webb, headmaster of the Webb School at Bellbuckle, Tenn...
...voting, it would look too complicated to American voters. This fear has been dispelled by actual experience. Spreading from smaller cities, the great city of Cleveland with an 800,000 population adopted it in 1921 by direct populate vote as a basic feature of a new city charter. In 1924, Cincinnatti followed Cleveland's lead. In 1926 Hamilton, Ohio, did likewise. It is now in use in Ireland for choosing the members of the national parliament at Dublin, and also of the parliament of North Ireland...
...Charter membership...
...right social behavior, non-sectarian religion, non-partisan politics, good morals and the esthetic consumption of leisure hours by useful and becoming "hob-bies." These aims, it was judged, could be compassed in two years and the New York Board of Regents had been persuaded to issue an irregular* charter, for the first "junior college" in the state...