Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opening speech of the evening, First Marshal O. S. Loud '29 addressed the gathering as follows: "It is in virtue of your records in Harvard College that you have been judged deserving of the honor of election to membership in a fraternity that for more than 150 years has sought to acknowledge and, in so far as possible, to reward the achievements of true scholarship. And in order that you appreciate that honor in the light of the traditions and ideals of the fraternity, it is the custom of some time that you be given at this hour a brief...
...there is more in it even than that. A man who remembers a face, or who considers an introduction of the evening before ample reason for a nod, is no better, in my estimation, than one who thinks membership in the same club with one of these relaxed persons a justification of continued bowing to aim. And there still exist--can you believe it?--those who think playing on the same athletic squad full license for a greeting outside of season...
...lengthily on small grievances. He serves the purpose of keeping something from being "put over" (his pet phrase) on the House. He is now a lame gadfly, however, having run third to Mayfield and Connolly for the Senate. His departure after March will not be regretted by the general membership...
Significance. Reunion of the two organizations, which it is hoped will be effected next year, would unite practically the entire Presbyterian body in Scotland, comprising roughly two-thirds of the Christian membership of the country. The Church of Scotland had an enrollment of 761,946 at the beginning of 1927; the United Free Church...
Theoretically, the newspaperman belongs to a "fourth estate," proud in its antecedents, jealous for its membership, mighty in affairs. Actually he binds his toga with shoelace and a piece of string, and now and then he must take to his heels with some irate mere first-or second-estater grabbing at the frayed vestment...