Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that the duelling organizations have as large a membership as before the war is, to judge by my observations, in large part due to the education in nationalism received by the whole German people through the excesses of French imperialism, which unfortunately were also permitted by other Entente states...
When Asiatic principalities are offered membership in the League they are expressly told that their membership will continue only as long as "domestic questions" are not submitted to the jurisdiction of the League. Curiously enough most Eastern countries, except Japan, have some grievance against one or other of the Western custodians of civilization. These grievances, if submitted to the League, would fall under the Category of domestic problems of the Western parties to the trouble. Therefore these problems could not be cared for by the League but would be handled arbitrarily by the Western powers concerned...
...Cambridge Chapter of American National Red Cross has inaugurated a membership drive among students of the University as part of the Annual Roll Call campaign, it was announced yesterday by Stoughton Bell '96, director of the local organization. The movement has been endorsed by the Student Council, though they are not actively engaged in the campaign...
...appointed coach and official, established' a remarkable record both as a scholar and as an athlete. While doing this Clark also found time to earn his way through his four years of college by winning scholarships and acting as Cambridge correspondent for a Boston newspaper. He was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, was a member of his Class Day Committee and graduated with high honors in History. Next year he will continue his graduate work in this department which he is taking as a requirement for his doctor's degree...
...augurs ill for the permanent value, which it had been hoped this country would obtain from membership in the Court to see the Congressmen who favor such membership putting forth purely negative reasons for it. Nevertheless they but reflect the suspicious attitude of the country-at-large that has rendered all international peace projects abortive since the war. Perhaps disillusionment, the inevitable reaction of the violent enthusiasm the war engendered, has been the cause of this timorous provincialism, for the triumph of the Allied arms was attended with an almost universal wave of longing for a new world order. Only...