Word: chartered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leverett was Installed in his Presidents Office at Cambridge January 14, 1707-8. The Governor and Council and Ministers from the Six Neighbouring Towns were present in the Library; there were the College Charter, Records, Laws with a Seal Standing upon them; also the College Keys...
...Many people were in the Half below, in the Middle of the Hall A Table was Set for the Governor and Council to Sit at; things being thus prepared, The Governor Ordered the Library Keeper to carry down (under his right arm) The College Charter, Books of Record and Laws and the Seal upon them; He ordered the Buttler to carry down the Keys in his Lefthand; then the Governor took Mr. Leverett by the Hand. Led him out of the Library (after the books and Keys) down into the Hall, where, the Books, Seal Keys were laid...
...nomenclature may precipitate a flurry of sociable controversy. How, for example, is one to state whether the lefthanded keeper of the keys is to be Mr. Endicott, Mr. Saeger, or, to proceed, Mr. Westcott? And who, pray, in the Widener terminological maze would forfeit his mellifluous title for the Charter and Seal...
Many were the Pre-Raphaelitish extracurricular activities. They published a short-lived magazine, Germ. They were charter readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property...
Ella Bishop was a charter member of Midwestern College. In those dim Victorian undergraduate days she was the most popular member of a daringly co-educational experiment. And after her four bright college years an admiring faculty invited her to join them as teacher of grammar. Ella took her job very seriously, even in off-hours. Then love came to Ella; his name was Delbert. But a kitteny young cousin snatched Delbert away by seducing him. Ella put away her wedding dress and stood by for further trouble. It came: Death took Delbert and his kittenish wife, leaving Ella with...