Word: charter
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...society was established and chartered at the Engineering School last June after petitioning for over a year for a charter. It is the third chapter to be founded in Massachusetts, the Alpha chapter being at the Worcester Polytechnical School and the Beta chapter at Technology: The fraternity is especially strong in the Middle West with headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn. The charter members at Harvard were elected on a basis of their grades as furnished by the Administrative Board of the School...
...letter written in 1899 by Major H. L. Higginson Hon '82 urging the foundation of a club to help social life and hold together the students of the University" was read by Mr. Wigglesworth as the basis of his address. Characterizing this letter as the "charter of the Harvard Union", went on to tell how the Union had become the center of social life in the University, affording opportunities which it was impossible for any smaller organization to provide...
Heretofore the entire territory of Rhodesia has been under the administration of the British South Africa Company, which held a Royal Charter dated Oct. 29, 1889. A choice of responsible government or the opportunity to incorporate with the Union of South Africa was given to the electors of Southern Rhodesia in October, 1922. They voted for separate Dominion Status...
...Before her. Mrs. Hayes, a graduate of Wesleyan Female College at Cincinnati, and Mrs. Cleveland, a graduate of Wells College at Auburn, N. Y., were college women. But Mrs. Coolidge is a graduate of the University of Vermont, 1902, and a Pi Beta Phi. In fact she is a charter member of her chapter which was organized in her home. (The President is a Phi Gamma Delta of Amherst...
...Italy, the Chambers of Labor, the Coöperatives, the Unions, were broken up. D'Annunzio's first stroke was to intercede with the Government for the striking Marine workers. His last move is the founding of a d'Annunzian Chamber of Work at Florence. The charter of the Chamber is based on his Constitution of the Quarnaro, adopted in his Fiume venture. This Constitution bases society on a system of guilds, both of workmen and employers, and is a self-conscious endeavor to re-establish the spirit of medieval society. The Chamber is distinct from both...