Word: member
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...annual convention of the Intercollegiate Literary Association will be held at Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, January 4, 1877. Each college in the Association is entitled to three delegates; and any college may become a member of the Association by accepting its constitution...
...Edmund H. Bennett, dean of the law school of Boston University, has offered a prize of $50, to be known as, the "Hillard prize," for the best essay written by any member of the school during the school year...
...fact is, that neither of these views is right. Until this year you have been a boy. It was thought proper, and very rightly, too, that you should be launched into the world with a set of principles which would make you a valuable member of society; and these principles were instilled into you in a very strong and somewhat exaggerated from. But from this year you will become a man of the world. And one of the first lessons which you must learn is that a man of the world is never intolerant. To use an old definition...
...agreed that the meeting of the class should be called for Wednesday, November 1st; that nominations for the various offices should be made at any time on or before Monday, October 30th, to C. M. Barnes, Matthews 39, chairman of a committee on nominations, consisting of four members, - one each from the different portions of the class. Nominations must be signed by at least one member of the Senior class...
...used then not because the offices are of great importance in themselves, or because persons capable of filling them are found with difficulty. The annual squabble arises from the fact that different "interests" insist on being "represented" without regard to any principle of reason or of justice. If the members of the present Senior Class could get over the idea, when they meet, that such and such a man is to be opposed because he happens to be a member of the Tweedledum Society and that so-and-so should be supported because he belongs to the Tweedledee Fraternity, they...