Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held the road should not have begun dividends so soon, should not have paid so much ($8 in 1928-30). Others recalled that in 1926, with its common paying $7, Southern was able to offer rights to stockholders, raised $10.000,000 additional capital. Unusual provision of Southern's charter is that the company cannot pay out more in dividends in any one year than it has earned in the previous year...
...Sherry, Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. A. Shimer, Derby Academy, Hingham; E. J. Silbermann, Boston Latin School; H. L. Smith, Jr., Central High School, Springfield, Conn.; C. H. Smoot, Jr., Gunney School, Washington; N. J. Sondheim, Brookline High School; G. F. Stork, William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, Pa.; Jack Stutman, Boston Latin School; E. D. Sullivan, Boston Latin School; Henry Swan, Jr., The Phillips Exeter Academy; L. N. Tritter, Boston Latin School...
...University of North Carolina, where he was an undergraduate. Kjellesvig, who receives his key today, is a student in the Harvard Medical School. That there will be no conferring of honorary memberships was also made known. The 'shingles', facsimile photographs of the original Harvard Phi Beta Kappa charter of 1779, signed by Justice Wait and Professor Howard will be distributed to the new men later in the year...
...calendar. The date of the first regular meeting, September 5, was at first selected for celebration; from 1792 until the present the annual gathering has been held during Commencement Week, though the more recently initiated Winter Meeting, on or about December 4 (the date of the granting of the charter) is, precisely speaking, the anniversary. From the first the celebration has comprised a business meeting, literary exercises, and a dinner. Until about 1817, the business meeting took place in the college room of some member, and the dinner was provided at Warland's or Porter's where there was much...
...Society had accomplished much in its first fifty years at Harvard: it had by no means forgotten the noble words of the William and Mary brethren in the preamble to its charter, "Whereas it is repugnant to the liberal principles of Societies, that they should be confined to any particular place, men or Description of men, and as the same should be extended to the wise & virtuous of what ever degree." It had brought as concrete results, an inter-change of ideas with other chapters; the institution of Anniversary Meetings in which the greatest of Harvard's graduates brought...