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Word: membership (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Harvard's forces are being marshailed for new forays into the experimental fields of educational development, there arise murmurs that all may not be well in some of the recently conquered territories. For the second successive year since the adoption of the Reading Period, the membership of the Dean's List shows a slight decrease in enrollment. The figures are far from alarming, showing only a drop from 18.4 of the total registration last year to 16.8 in the records just published, and the fluctuations are so small that they might readily be accounted for by temporary considerations such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGURES AND FACTS | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...able and personable Miss Mildred E. Reeves of the District of Columbia. Her bobbed hair, olive complexion and wine-colored dresses are familiar decorations of the House, where she can generally be seen in a rear seat on the Democratic side watching legislation hawk-eyed. With women in its membership, the House is used to having women on its floor; hence it admitted women secretaries long ago. But not the Senate, where men are statesmen. Women members of the House may tread there. And "grand old" Mrs. Rebecca Ratimer Felton of Georgia, was actually Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Women of Importance | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Shattuck is well-known as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature. He returned last year to membership in the firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden, and Perkins, from which he had resigned in 1920 when he entered the legislature. For four years, Mr. Shattuck was a director of the Harvard Alumni Association. He has served, also, as a member of the council of the Harvard Law School Association, and in 1924 and 1925 he was chairman of the committee for the nomination of Overseers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.L. SHATTUCK WILL SUCCEED C.F. ADAMS | 3/8/1929 | See Source »

Seats on the New York Stock Exchange rocked uncomfortably when the market declined last week. In the first sales of quarter-seats, 16 quarter-seats sold for $109,500 each, making a whole seat worth approximately $440,000. Before the recent 25% increase in the Exchange's membership, the price of a seat had reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lower Seats | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...first New York Stock Exchange seat to be sold since the adoption of the 25% membership increase brought, last week, $625,000, the same figure as for the last seat sold prior to the increase. But last week's purchase included the seat with its extra one-fourth right; in other words, five-fourths of a seat was purchased. Thus a precedent was established for valuing each quarter-seat at $125,000 and a seat at $500,000. The seat was bought by Ferdinand A. Straus from Robert L. Leeds, Mr. Leeds purchased his seat early in January, paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Seat Prize | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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