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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME'S first perpetual subscriber? Or if not the very first, then at least a charter member of the Perpetual Subscriptions' Club? Herewith is my check for $60 in full payment for a perpetual subscription...
TIME'S claim to be the first publication to offer perpetual subscriptions must be either withdrawn or considerably limited by qualifications. Since 1920 or earlier, the New England Historic Genealogical Society has offered a perpetual subscription to its quarterly magazine, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, in connection with a perpetual membership in the Society, for $300. More recently, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has offered perpetual subscriptions to its quarterly magazine with or without perpetual membership in the Society...
Since their last split, after their 1926 football game, Harvard and Princeton have not participated in dual contests in any sport. Last week, however, sportsmen thought they saw first signs of a rapprochement in these two occurrences: Princeton Athletic Director Charles W. Kennedy was invited to officiate at the Harvard-Yale v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He accepted. Harvard Athletic Director William J. Bingham was invited to officiate at the Princeton-Cornell v. Oxford-Cambridge dual track meet. He too accepted...
...last Chicago's World Fair (1893) the first convention of women's music clubs was assembled through the efforts of Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife of the conductor. Four years later, inspired by this start, six women met in New York City, laid the foundation of the now national Federation of Music Clubs. In Boston last week this Federation held its 16th biennial convention with 3,000 delegates representing clubs in every State and also Alaska, Hawaii. Programs featured all branches of musical activity, every musical phase of civic, social, home, school, church life. Practical assistance...