Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...club is to disband. If one of the three ancient rankers dies before next July 21, the remaining two are to call a final meeting as soon as they think best. And from the years that are dead...
...passing of that brave grey rascal, Dom Manuel, from his castle at Storisende, and during the adolescence of Coth's prying young son, Jurgen, is a faintly tiresome recital of disappointments, frustrations, pedantic sorceries and middle-aged bawdinesses among the nine remaining Knights of the Silver Stallion, who disband perforce and go to their destinies as their leader has gone...
...traditions despite attacks three years ago and in 1916, when Principal McDaniel was installed at Oak Park to stamp them out. A detective had been employed to "get the goods" on these brotherhoods, and in a session with this sleuth last fortnight the 51 had confessed all, promised to disband. Solemnly, regretfully, the "grip" (private type of handshake) had been given a last time all around. A last time they had whispered their passwords and unguessable secrets. Then, like brave men, they had declared their fraternizing formally at an end and gone their ways in sorrow. They had thought...
...parts. More interesting: the actual details presented were identical, save for one important exception, with the celebrated "quad" system which the late Woodrow Wilson sought, 15 years ago, to apply to Harvard's associate, Princeton, and which got him "kicked upstairs" into politics. Woodrow Wilson, thoroughgoing theorist, wanted to disband the Princeton clubs, that there might be no "undemocratic" associations running transversely through the undergraduate bodies. The Harvard surveyors left the shoe on the other foot. Their drastic vertical division of the student body needed in no wise to disrupt the Harvard club system, seen as a valuable series...
...will sing at Washington, D. C. and Wednesday, April 21 will find it at Summit, N. J. From there it will go on the next day to Passiac, N.J. and then give its final concert of the trip on Friday, April 23 at Albany, N.Y. There the Club will disband to return to Cambridge at the end of the vacation...