Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...increased cost of examination. The fee remains $10, while the cost per candidate of examination has risen from $7.98 to $11.11. The deficit is to be made up by the sale of the Board's publications, a possible increase in the fee, and most significant of all, an increased membership charge to those colleges which are served by the Board. Although it has been well known that the cost of tuition at Harvard never covers the expenditure of the University on the individual, it is not generally known that the college goes out thus to meet the candidate...
...years a vestryman. He lacked confirmation, as did practically all members of the Church of England in the American colonies, since no English Bishop ever came to them; and he was not disposed late in life to seek a rite without which he had always maintained full church membership. Attendance upon church-services was his established and regular habit, rather than an infrequent practice, as you imply. The statement that "he was never known to pray in church" is a gratuitous assumption and a slur upon his sincerity as a participant in public worship. What would you expect...
General Smuts had a no less difficult task, for the tide of public opinion was running fast, fast enough to promise civil war. A Boer himself, he is yet a keen, sincere imperialist, believing that the manifest destiny of the Union lies in membership in the Commonwealth. While firm for a flag that would embody the Union Jack, he nevertheless urged moderation upon his followers and it was through his tact and diplomacy that he obtained important concessions from the Government and so was able to induce his South African Party to accept the compromise...
...Young Men's Christian Association's general board, at Chicago last week, announced that for the first time membership in the more than 1,600 Canadian and U. S. organizations has surpassed one million...
...reports will be received by radio at the Union, and the play will be shown within a moment of its actual happening. The presentation will be open to members of the Union only, who will be required to show membership cards at the door...