Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Methodist congregations gained most, 220,183, which made the total membership 8,920,190, somewhat greater than the Baptists count, somewhat more than half of the Catholic Western bodies. The Catholic gain, as shown in the following table, was less than in recent years, chiefly because of the restriction of immigration from Catholic countries. The increase of other denominations grew from the spirited evangelical activities of the year and, doubtless, also from the religious thought induced by the current fundamentalist-modernist and religion-evolution controversies...
...entire membership of the Clubs will leave Cambridge at about 6 o'clock today and go to Taunton by bus and automobile, returning after the concert...
...present, indeed, the Committee is vested with discretion to reject a candidate who applies under any system if they feel that such a candidate is not prepared to meet the responsibilities of college membership. We can no longer afford to accept the negative testimony that a boy has submitted himself to instruction and has led a life free from obvious iniquity. If college is to train boys for service, we must require positive evidence that our candidates are probably good material who will be likely to repay by future service to the community, the large outlay the college makes...
...have taught him to keep silent. But last week he rose to flay the Government for its conciliatory policy toward Locarno and the League. Trembling with intensity and striking the desk before him with a frail clenched hand, he demanded the withdrawal of Germany's application for League membership and the abandonment of the Locarno Pacts: "Beware! Oh, beware! The Government's ruinous policy is leading us straight into complete dependence upon France...
...ancient University of Bonn, some 20 miles farther up the Rhine, a dignified faculty made him a Doctor of Political Science; an irrepressible student body elected him to membership in its Interfraternity Council...