Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passage of a hundred years has enabled us to see more clearly the events which occurred between 1636 and the granting of the charter to the President and Fellows in 1650. Thanks to the labors of the historians we are able to appreciate more fully than did Quincy the spirit of the founders and to understand more completely the significance of their bold plan. And with the increase in our knowledge comes a more than proportional increase in our admiration. As you have heard, the Puritans' ambition was none other than to transplant to an untamed forest the ancient university...
...Edward Kennard Rand will next be called upon for a Latin Oration of welcome. Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Historian of the University, will make a brief recital of the events constitution the founding of Harvard College, beginning with the vote of the General Court, and ending with the Charter...
...States in the Union Florida is one of the most rabidly Townsendite. In its regular Democratic primary this year to select five Representatives, three of them turned out to be Townsendites. Nominated without opposition for the seat of the late Senator Duncan U. Fletcher was young, aggressive Claude Pepper, charter member of Townsend Club No. 1 of Tallahassee...
...never forgot Birmingham's cast-iron pride were John Henry Adams, author of the grandiloquent inscription, and Thomas Joy. As a child Thomas Joy sold the first newspaper ever to appear on the streets of Birmingham, later became a charter member of the local Kiwanis Club. Moving to Chicago Kiwanian Joy was immensely successful as a construction engineer, put up some $20,000,000 worth of buildings, finally retired to spend the rest of his life in his native Birmingham. Proud Kiwanians were anxious to gather him back in the fold, but Engineer Joy's ideas had changed...
...Albany's Charter Day parade came to a momentary halt, a moppet in white scampered up to New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, asked: "Will you please sign your name on my pants?" While the crowd gawped, Governor Lehman squiggled his signature across the boy's bottom...