Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...days of the compulsory prayers, services were held daily at twenty minutes of two, and all members who attended them were exempted by the college faculty from attendance at morning chapel. After the voluntary prayer system came into practice, these daily services of the society were given up. The membership of the society has increased every year since the society's origin, and now numbers over one hundred. Among the most prominent supporters of this society can be mentioned the names of Bishop Williams of Connecticut, and the Rev. Phillips Brooks of Boston...
...annual meeting of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, Professors J. H. Wright and F. D. Allen of Harvard were admitted to membership...
Great political enthusiasm is manifested this fall at Yale. Democratic, Republican and Prohibition clubs have been formed and each of these has organized a batallon. The greatest interest at present centres in the Democratic club. Its membership has increased more than eighty per cent over that of the last campaign. The battalion, under the name of the "Sumner Guards," contains about two hundred...
...three weeks. The member who makes the best scores on two days out of the three is declared winner of the match and is awarded a prize. One of the three matches is open particularly to freshmen. The initiation fee is small in comparison with the privileges gained by membership. We hope that a larger number of men may be induced to join the Shooting Club and to compete for a place on the team chosen to meet Pennsylvania...
...Conference Franchise is about to enter upon the third year of its existence. Last year was a most successful one in the history of the society. It had a membership of sixty, the majority of whom took an active interest in the literary and social advantages offered. A comedy was performed by the members in which they achieved marked success, the performance in every respect being far above the average amateur undertakings...