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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most Harvard Clubs Easy to Join...
...Perhaps the most personal means of keeping in touch with Harvard is through the local Harvard Club, which every Harvard man should join as soon as he graduates. There are about 125 Harvard Clubs, which are members of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and there are doubtless others, which are not associated with the general body. Of the Associated Clubs, over 100 are in the United States, which means that there is a Harvard Club within reach of every Harvard man in the country. There are Harvard Clubs all over the world: Canada, South America, Mexico, Cuba, Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan...
...join most Harvard Clubs is a very simple matter. All that a man has to do is tell the secretary or almost any member that he is a Harvard man living in the community and wants to join, and he is promptly enrolled. It is necessarily somewhat more formal in the Boston and New York groups, which are run as social clubs. In these two organizations, candidates must be proposed and seconded by two members of the Club and their names passed on by the committee on admissions...
...innocent fool that I was, shook my head. "There's nothing in it," I asserted. "Now I am going to get a liberal education in fifteen minutes a day by reading Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelves. Join me, Tom, and you'll never regret...
...Sister Therese Martin, one of the nine children of a jeweler of Alencon, a provincial town to the south of Lisieux. At the age of 16 -that was in 1889 -she decided to join the Carmelite Order, but was rejected because of her extreme youth. Taken on a visit to Rome, she threw herself at the feet of Pope Leo XIII, "the greatest of modern Popes," imploring him to sweep away the barriers which prevented her becoming...