Word: joined
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...point of view. He haunts the scenes of his past exploits in the same enthusiastic, but saddened and tame, manner in which the retred tallow chandler of old story haunted New-gate-street on melting days, and imbued with very much the same feelings. He feels amply qualified to join the active throng before him ; he feels an almost irrepressible inclination to throw himself in the midst of the play, just as some people of peculiar nervous constitutions can never see an expense train dashing by a platform without an insane desire to jump at it. His hair...
...ribbon, white gauntlets, swords and caps about the size of a saucer, placed at various angles on their elaborately dressed hair. We noticed those of one "Corps" in white doeskin trousers and high boots. The tables on the platform were occupied, the front one by professors who were to join with the rest in celebrating the festive occasion, and the one behind it by the "Prasidium," consisting of six officers from the different Corps...
...kinds may be procured at a great reduction through its agency. We earnestly advise all to take advantage of the Society's enterprise and make as many of their holiday purchases as possible through it. It will pay many who are not now members of the society to join and take advantage of its rates, for the cost of membership is frequently covered in two or three purchases. The management of the Cooperative certainly deserve the thanks of the members for the energetic and practical way in which they carry on the business, and it is only fair that these...
...year, these difficulties may be removed. There are at present two fees; by the proposed change there would be but one fee for all persons. Again, if the fiscal year begins in October, the membership will be not only more certain and calculable, but probably larger. The inducement to join the society is strongest at the beginning of the academic year, since a large number of purchases are made at that time. In February, under the existing system, men are apt not to join, because there is no immediate prospect of decided benefit from their membership. This probably accounts...
...third resolution was : "That from the first of December, 1883, till the end of the fiscal year, new members be admitted on paying a fee of one dollar." This enables persons to join the society from the first of December till the beginning of the new fiscal year on the payment of two dollars,-one dollar in December and one dollar in February. The directors were further induced to take this step by the necessity of increasing the receipts of the society during the next few months. The expenses of the society during the past two months have been unusually...