Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dramatic Club has announced the election of 24 men to membership. They are as follows...
Last week the members of the New York Stock Exchange killed by an overwhelming vote a proposal of the governing board to increase the exchange membership from 1,100 to 1,125 (TIME, Nov. 9). Out of a total of 941 votes cast, only 268 favored the measure. The reason was not far to seek. At present every exchange member knows that his "seat" is worth in excess of $130,000. Should more seats be added, the laws of supply and demand would function to lower that value. No exchange member wishes his "equity" to be affected. Therefore the present...
...want to be sure that membership in the Court cannot be used either (a) to bring this country before the bar of the World Court in the settlement of a question that we do not care to submit to it, or (b) to marshal world-wide public opinion against us in case we have refused to submit a moot question to the Court...
...Beta Kappa was the progenitor of all Greek-letter college fraternities although, unlike its successors, it based its membership solely upon scholarship. It is older than the Constitution of the United States, having been founded on December 5, 1776. The idea of an organization which should weld men of scholastic attainment together in fraternity was conceived by John Heath, a student at William and Mary College, who formed the nucleus of Phi Beta Kappa with four fellow-students. The strength of their conviction as to the need of such a fraternity for "attaining the important ends of Society" is attested...
...great many healthy young women from country towns have chirped and kicked, at one time or another, in the annual musical revues of Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld-so many, in fact, that the "Ex-Follies Girl" now has the weight of "Ph. D." or "Elk": it connotes membership in a sort of national oddfellows' society...