Word: charter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusion of Kuhl's remarks, the entire body of residents rose to its foot with applause as W. L. West Jr. '32, presented to the prominent head a small Russian bell for hand use, as a remembrance of his regime as the first head tutor of one of the Charter Houses of the Harvard House Plan...
...Widener Treasure Room at present in consequence of the Society's anniversary a collection of Phi Beta Kappa antiques is on exhibition. Chief among those relies is the charter of the Harvard Chapter with the interesting footnote to the effect that "the eleventh aricle (dealing with the superiority of the central body) shall be rised (erased) as far as regards the superiority of this society (the branch at William and Mary, founders of the order) over that at Cambridge." The treasurer's account book of 1797 tells of a fund to aid distressed brethren; while a photostat copy...
...contrast of $400,000,000 with the $500,000,000 figure which was originally mentioned as N. C. C.'s objective, and with the billion which was later written into its charter, was not taken by Mr. Miller's listeners as an ominous sign. On the contrary, the fact seemed to be that the mere planning and organizing of N. C. C., in advance of its completion and operation, had profoundly ameliorated the conditions which had made N. C. C. seem necessary. Since credit is almost entirely psychological, the main effect of the national banking stabilizer was psychological...
...entire collection fills all the cases in the Treasure Room except the one which is reserved throughout the year for the college charter and related documents. Most of the Nelson papers have to do with the Admiral's official life and especially with some of his more famous engagements...
This is, on the whole, quite a serviceable theory, but it omits the rather vital fact that Magna Charta was signed in 1215. It is perhaps not fair to the English to accuse them of such blindness. But for them the man and the charter do seem anomalous companions...