Word: membership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale through the influence of a popular piece of fiction, which, after all, was not entirely fiction. Nearly all the big schools in the country have to do with the problem which Princeton now is debating. In all of them there are societies and clubs, more or less secret, membership in which is esteemed an honor to be prized, and the influence of which in many instances is highly beneficial. But the trouble is that these clubs tend to take a place of overshadowing importance in the student mind, and that in the nature of the situation many worthy...
...clock. the plan this year is to have in general fewer matches and thus improve the scores. Last season there was at least one and frequently there were two each week, and consequently the men w ere not at their best each time. The cause of this w as membership in includes all the colleges which have teams in the field. They are divided in to several classes, according to a standard determined from their ability shown in previous years. The University team when first organized was not a first-rate team, and as result was put in class...
...democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England by knighthood, France by membership in one of the famous learned societies. Efforts have frequently been made here to establish some such governmental honor, but Congress has always considered it out of harmony with the principles of a democracy...
...hoped that Professor Wendell's new honors--the professorship emeritus and his membership in the Academy--may give him as much pleasure as he has given the University...
...have followed this admirable lead, and their combined efforts unearthed an extraordinary mass of evidence bearing on ghosts, telepathy and other manifestations of the occult. Various theories have been elaborated which attempt to explain what are regarded as incontestable facts, but so far with no very satisfactory result. The membership roll of the Society has included many of England's foremost men, Henry Sedgwick, A. J. Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes, Lord Rayleigh, Alfred Russell Wallace and Professor Gilbert Murray...