Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club has begun its second season under the most favorable auspices with an increased membership. It was found last year that ordmary music, however good, was not so taking as was desirable, not being fitted for what is expected of such unique instruments as guitars and mandolins. Therefore, the management has with some trouble secured some traditional and characteristic Spanish airs and dances which are specially adapted to those instruments, and which will be new to most audiences. In some of these airs a flute part is introduced and a 'cello will probably be soon added to the club...
Professor W. R. Harper of Yale has organized a correspondence School of Hebrew intended to aid those persons desirous of a knowledge of Hebrew and the Semitic languages, who cannot avail themselves of opportunities for oral instruction. Its membership is to include persons of both sexes. The work in the school is carried on at home by a regular correspondence with a careful instructor, and the method, which is purely inductive, will depend for success upon the studious purpose of the pupil. An elementary course is also offered in Aramaic. Arabic and Assyrian...
Chauncy Hall forfeits membership by forfeiture of a game. English High admitted instead...
...membership of the club now numbers about ninety. Several new canoes have been added to the navy and a large number of competitors are expected in the race which takes place in the spring. The club will, before long, have a regular society room where smokers will be held every three weeks...
...held at the Hotel Brunswick, on Fifth Avenue, last evening at half-past seven. The meeting began with a course dinner and at its conclusion considerable important business bearing on the interests of the university and the club was discussed. A large number of names were presented for membership. The men thus proposed, after paying an initiation fee of five dollars were admitted. Among the after dinner speeches there was much enthusiasm evinced concerning the recent Harvard-Princeton game...