Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the collection plate. St. Paul's is still a fashionable church. Its rector, the Rev. Dr. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., last week pleased most of his parishioners, surprised some of them, as he surprised many other Episcopalians, by announcing that in future he would receive into communicant membership, without the rite of confirmation, members of other Christian denominations...
...present home on West 44th Street, Manhattan, is the shrine of social seamen the world over. Member boats over 30 feet on the waterline number more than 600. In the famed grillroom, designed like the salon of a ship, hang reproductions of all the notable ships of its history. Membership requires presentation of a model to this museum. There hangs, also, the stern board of the great yacht America, built by a syndicate headed by James C. Stevens, which sailed to England and raced against 15 British boats around the Isle of Wight. Queen Victoria, scanning the finish...
...delighted to have the privilege of joining in welcoming to Cambridge so many students from other lands. I take it that some of you have but recently arrived in America, and it is a great pleasure to me to assist in your induction into membership in Harvard University. Our University is not old in comparison with some of the universities in other countries. It has not yet celebrated its three-hundredth anniversary. But it has earned a reputation which I suppose is one of the reasons for your presence here, and which I hope you will not find...
...Chamber. Candlemaker William Procter was so honored in 1880 because he (with Soapmaker James Gamble) had founded a thriving soap industry at Cincinnati in 1837, also because he had battled for full weight in each package of merchandise. In 1899, his son William A. Procter received his life membership because he was first president of the incorporated Procter & Gamble Co. Knighthood of a Procter in 1928 concerned science and philanthropy more, soap less...
...branches of knowledge, and affording that minimum of information which may reasonably be expected of a liberally educated man. The methods of instruction are that of disciplinary character to which the student personnel is accustomed in the preparatory schools and which are appropriate to his actual capacity and aims . . ." Membership in the senior college is restricted to men of proved ability. "The senior college has no fixed program that can briefly be described. The method is that of independent study under Faculty guidance. The student according to his bent is free to browse or concentrate . . . but a superior degree...