Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Landis graduated from Princeton in 1921, and from the Harvard Law School in 1924. The former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission and one-time member of the Federal Trade Commission succeeded Roscoe Pound, now Roving Professor, as head of the Law School last fall...
...further revealed that if the investigating committee's suggestions are put into effect the Alumni Trustee will have the right to remove from office any member of the "Dartmouth's" staff at any time. This proposal, bringing up as it does a clear issue of University censorship, has aroused bitter opposition from undergraduate sources...
Lord Wright is now a member of the House of Lords, the highest legal tribunal of England. He was formerly Master of the Rolls and before becoming a Law Lord was a Judge of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division. He has been chairman of the Committee on Law Revision and has been the author of numerous articles on current English law. The English peer was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and holds honorary LL.D.'s from the Universities of Birmingham and London...
...Class of 1742, a century later, had only 24 graduates. Its most famous member was Samuel Auchmuty, a noted colonial lawyer and judge, who later received honorary degrees from Columbia and Oxford. Jumping another century, the Class of 1842 graduated 56 strong. This class lost several men in the Civil War. The best-known member was Stephen H. Phillips, who became foreign Minister of the old Kingdom of Hawaii...
...makes me feel old to reflect that I know one member of the Class of 1842 personally. Eleven of them lived into the present century, the last dying in 1911. So if the same average holds good, twenty percent of 1942 can hope to see New Year's Day 2001. Let's hope they will find that year a little more peaceful than this year of unemployment, war, and hurricanes...