Word: charter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attendance, every member makes this his first duty. In September I set down all the dates until Commencement in my engagement book, and adjust my plans through the year to them. Others doubtless do the same. Of course there are other duties for each Fellow besides the meetings. The charter empowers the President and Fellows 'to hold a meeting for the debating and concluding of affairs...
...original charter reads that the President and Fellows 'shall and may purchase and acquire to themselves, or take and receive upon free gift and donation any land, tenements or hereditaments, within the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay, not exceeding the value of 500 pounds per annum, and any goods and sums of money whatsoever, etc.' Inasmuch as the expenditure of the College this year is $1,486,000, there has evidently been some growth...
...League policy. ?In general, Zionism is a political movement to repopulate Palestine with Jews. It achieved its greatest significance?before the Balfour Declaration?under the brilliant leadership of Dr. Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), a Hungarian Jew. Dr. Herzl negotiated fruitlessly with the Porte (Turkey) for a Palestine charter. He tried Britain, was offered sites on the Sinai Peninsula and in the East African Protectorate; but both these offers were rejected through the strong opposition of the ultra-nationalist Zionists who naturally coveted Palestine...
...Theatregoers have offered all members of the University interested in affairs of the theatre a charter membership in the club which will be organized at 3.05 this afternoon in Harvard 1. The speakers are Roland Young, star in "Beggar on Horseback", who will speak on "Audiences", and Wallace Eddinger, leading man in "Spin-Drift", who will discuss the annual scholarship which he is sponsoring for Harvard's most promising actor...
...control and direction of the erection, maintenance and management of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; and neither the execution of this agreement by the undersigned nor the making of the donation aforesaid by the undersigned shall be considered or construed to prevent the amendment of the charter, constitution or statutes of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in such manner as to bring about the accomplishment of this result...