Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chairmen of the various committees among which the work of the Phillips Brooks House Association is divided, determines the policies and practices of the organization. The Association is made up of the students who are participating in the work, and participation is the only requisite for membership. A graduate secretary lends his effort and advice to the work and to the cabinet. This is, in brief, the organization...
...chairmen of the various committees among which the work of the Phillips Brooks House Association is divided, determines the policies and practices of the organization. The Association is made up of the students who are participating in the work, and participation is the only requisite for membership. A graduate secretary lends his effort and advice to the work and to the cabinet. This is, in brief, the organization...
...member dies or retires, others have made plans years ahead to succeed the retiring member. Thus it will rarely happen that an ex-President can enter the Senate without an undignified and unseemly contest. Then, too it is probable that most ex-Presi-dents would shrink from membership in the. Senate. An ex-Presi-dent would enter the Senate a tyro, like any other new member unfamiliar with Senate rules, without an important committee chairmanship, less ready in debate probably than the practiced old members. From being the most important figure in Washington he would become a mere member...
About 1820, becoming a member of the stock exchange meant an initiation fee of $25. By the end of the Civil War the initiation was $3,000. By 1869 membership was bought at the market price of a seat (there were 1,060 in all). The first year this went into effect the price of seats jumped from $3,000 to $7,500. In 1879 the number of seats was raised to 1,100, as at present. Since then there has been only the vast increase in security values and public participation to account for the rise in seat prices...
Philadelphia bustled and tumbled with the 39th convention of the Loyal Order of Moose?membership, 650,000; slogan, "Pap." Some 50,000 delegates attended, together with 1,200 women auxiliaries who were last week admitted to a men's session for the first time...