Word: membership
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Society last evening. He took as his text I Corinthians, XI-13. "When I was a child, I spake as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things." At the business meeting John Dana Hubbell '94 and John Hudson Hall '94 were elected to membership. The Society voted to join the Y. M. C. A. in inviting Mr. Moody to address the students...
...meeting of the Electric Club last night, J. C. Powers '92 was elected to membership. The speaker of the evening was Lieut. J. B. Cahoon from the Thomson Houston Works. With him came several former members of the club now at work in Lynn. The subject of the discussion was the new slow speed car motor. This was described in detail and photographs of the various parts were exhibited. By the new arrangement 10 per cent. less current is required to do a given amount of work, and a speed of forty miles an hour can be obtained. The coils...
...needs especial consideration as regards subscriptions. These will have to be raised if the association wants to pay off its debt of nearly $500. The subscriptions (excluding $1,000 membership fees) are $525 The receipts of the meetings only exceed the expenses by about $100 and there are $1,600 additional expenses to be covered...
...lecture courses given, and provision made for correspondence with prominent instructors. Syllabuses will from time to time be issued, to be used in connection with prescribed textbooks. Certificates and diplomas will be given to those who complete any prescribed course and pass a satisfactory examination. The only conditions of membership in the society are willingness to work, and the payment of a small registration fee. The plan thus affords the advantages of a scheme like the Chatauquan, worked by a corps of professional and well qualified instructors...
...would be one of the most enjoyable features of the meetings. While it is true that the regularly organized teams rightly claim the athletic energy of a majority of the men physically suited to engage in feats of strength and skill, still it is strange that gymnasiums of a membership one-fifth the size of ours should present in their exhibitions tumbling so far superior to that which we have in ours. There must be at least a dozen men in college who, at some time or another, have practiced tumbling, and who, with Mr. Bowler to train them...