Word: joining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year, on Open House night, the last stage of Bicker, 23 sophomores did not receive bids, and refused to join Prospect Club, a co-operative organization that accepted any interested student. Of the 23, fifteen were Jewish, and several sources charged religious discrimination. Most of these "hundred percenters" have since joined either Prospect or the Wilson Lodge...
Professor Seymour Harris came up with a plan of his own, after concluding that every Harvard student would eventually join the Brahmins. Harris calculated that a college student would make $100,000 more than a non-college student, and could therefore afford to buy his education on credit, on a sort of learn now, pay later, basis. When speculation arose as to how he had arrived at the magic figure of $100,000, it was rumored that he had divided the annual Gross National Product by the number of Harvard students, and subtracted an odd number of Yalies...
Cross added that he supports the unity of Christendom with plurality of doctrine. "The differences which exist enrich the church," he said. "I would like to see the Roman Catholic Church join a movement such as the World Council of Churches...
...Israel last week, where Rumanian Jews were arriving at the rate of 6,000 a month, authorities estimated that 100,000 of the 250,000 Jews left in Rumania would, if allowed, join the exodus to Israel over the next months. This flood would easily top the 40,000 that Poland let out after its 1956 thaw, and would leave Russia's 3,000,000 as the only big Jewish community remaining in Eastern Europe. Rumania's action, says one Israeli official, "promises to be bigger than the Spanish expulsion...
...small investment (two fish, five rolls of white silk, six bottles of sake), officially sealed his troth to Michiko Shoda, who then knuckled down to the weary task of studying the archaic imperial wedding lore under Palace Ritualist Osanaga Kanroji. His bride in hand, the prince was free to join his parents. Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagoko, at a heady gala: the annual poetry-reading contest. Fired by this year's contemporary topic (windows), an astounding 22,427 waka fanciers had submitted the stirrings of their muses. Eleven of the 15 winners were able to join the imperial family...