Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys who comprise the gangs have to undergo rigorous initiations before being qualified for membership. In one of the more exclusive gangs initiates, usually aged about nine, have to drink twelve glasses of dago-red wine and have a revolver pressed into their temples while they take the pledge. Another gang demands that all members swear vengeance upon anyone who shall wrong a fellow constituent-an oath which is carried...
During the past few years, the number of candidates for membership on the CRIMSON Boards and for managerships of the various athletic teams, has appreciably lessened. Whether or not this is caused by the length of the competitions and by their severity, will be disputed tonight...
Since yesterday was the ninety third anniversary of President Eliot's birth displays will be made this week in the Treasure Room in Widener Library of several of the birthday greetings which he received during his life. His certificate of membership in the French Legion of Honor and several views of the Yard and surrounding territory during President Eliot's long term of office, as well as a copy of a "Boston Journal" Supplement, dated October 20, 1869, which describes his inauguration to the Presidency are also on exhibition...
Professor Haskins who for many years has been a corresponding member, was elevated to this position, which entails all the rights of full membership, under the most flattering circumstances, being elected in the first vote by an overwhelming majority, Full membership in the Institute, is the highest honor which France can confer upon a scholar...
...entered a Finnish university from which he has a degree as a technical engineer. In his capacity of engineer he took a position in a company which manufactured and sold farm machinery, but at the same time, as is customary for business men in Finland, he held a membership in an athletic club...