Word: charter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same year, Pit's well-developed sense of responsibility gave him another nudge. An earnest young man from Princeton Theological Seminary turned up at Penn Charter one day to recruit delegates to a youth conference. When he asked for volunteers, he was greeted by stony silence; when he asked if anyone would like to hear more about the conference before making up his mind, the silence became even stonier. Desperately, the seminarian asked if any boy would agree to receive promotional literature just in case someone might develop an interest, and at this point Class President Van Dusen spoke...
...about 20 to 64 this year, and upped the budget from roughly $500,000 to $1,100,000. Union has come a long way from that December day in 1836 when the seminary first opened its doors to 13 students who wanted, as the preamble to Union's charter put it, "to live free from party strife, and to stand aloof from all the extremes of doctrinal speculation, practical radicalism, and ecclesiastical domination...
Union students are no cloistered intellectuals. One of the original provisions in the Union charter was that the seminary should be subjected to all the pressures of city life. Today, this means exposure to slums and subways, to politics, raucousness and muggers, as well as to lectures on theology. Union, explains Dean of Students Bill Webber, wants its students to be shocked into asking: "What can the Gospel have to say to this incredibly pagan city?" And then it wants them to sit down and figure out the answer...
...technicality in the Phillips Brooks House charter prohibits the awarding of membership to anyone except students of the University. Aside form the fact that they cannot vote in House elections, Radcliffe Associates will be accorded privileges exactly the same as those of University members...
...disagreed with those who placed great hopes in charter revision at the 1955 conference. "It would be difficult to point to any one charter change which could improve the UN's operations appreciably...