Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following-named members of the class of '86, having been made honorary members of the Longfellow Memorial Association, are appointed a committee to receive membership subscriptions from the freshman class : J. D. Bradley (chairman), Wendell Baker, C. C. Burnett, T. H. Cabot, E. D. Codman, R. H. Delafield, A. P. Gardner, C. Guild, George L. Peabody and R. D. Smith...
...supposed to be composed of members who have shown an interest or have obtained distinction in some particular department; and an election to such a society is regarded as an honorable notice of this prominence. In one way the existence of these societies is to be deplored. The membership list is considered to represent the leaders in the special department to which the society is devoted; and such an arbitrary ranking as the society makes creates a somewhat false standard of merit, and is likely to do injustice to those who have been left out of the society by mere...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The article in the last Advocate with the above title has been effective in exciting considerable feeling, and in calling forth several indignant rejoinders. In particular, the president of our chief musical society has disclaimed the existence of favoritism towards candidates for membership, and the Crimson, in its last issue, has devoted two editorials to an energetic refutal of the assertions contained in the article in question. The author of the article is charged especially with indefinite accusations which he does not substantiate. This alleged fault of his can hardly be deemed a fair criticism...
...York is to have an "Author's Club," with a membership limited to fifty of the most prominent literary workmen of the city...
...departments of the college. The cover alone is very artistically treated and shows much of that talent which we have been wont to expect in each number of the Tiger. The first pages are devoted to a general catalogue of faculty and students, followed by lists of membership of the various literary organizations; then athletic records, clubs, commencement exercises and general Princeton news of note. Our account would give the impression of a dry bundle of names and figures, but the editors have been signally successful in enlivening such solid matter with humorous cuts in a lighter vein. Throughout these...