Word: charter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet will be held under the management of the Intercollegiate Trapshooting League, of which the Harvard GunClub is a charter member. Yale has won the meet for eleven successive years...
Preparatory schools which have pledged their support include Phillips Exeter Academy, the Penn Charter School, Lawrenceville, St. Paul's Mercersburg, and others...
...awarding of an American Fellowship may bring out another MacDowell. Those who complain of the misdirected energies of the "materialistic" American people will be pleased to note the increasing tendency toward aesthetic appreciation, for, while not directly subsidized by the American government, the Academy functions under a charter from Congress. And who knows but that the flavor of foreign recognition is just the straw of confidence Americans want and need? After all, ours is an embryo development, sans tradition, sans reputation, and recognition from abroad may be the impetus necessary to awaken latent genius...
...Foundation, counting as it does some of the best-known of the nation's citizens among its charter members, will be ably and carefully handled. It should have little difficulty in realizing its hopes...
...University and 30 other men, is one of the two Governing Boards of the University, the other one being the Corporation or "President and Fellows". The Board of Overseers was established by an act of the General Court in 1642, and since the granting of the college charter in 1650 its duty has been to supervise the administration of the College by the Corporation. Originally the Overseers were a group of ministers and public officials, but since 1866 they have been elected by the graduates. They have a vote power on the more important acts and appointments of the Corporation...