Word: membership
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Certain aspects of college life encourage hard drinking, and to many men drinking is just as much an activity as membership on an athletic team. The ordinary man is expected to drink himself under the table at least once, whether it be an initiation, a reunion, or some sort of party. An intelligent understanding of the problem is not helped by graduates who become drunk at football games and club dinners. We believe that students will not, and are as a practical matter, unable to change the faults of this situation...
This suggestion Dr. Henderson presented last week to the National Academy of Sciences, convened in the stately halls of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. This most exclusive (membership limited to 300) of the nation's learned bodies was meeting in a Confederate State for the first time since it was founded in 1863. The savants had nothing to say about the War of the Rebellion, but they did discuss...
...School graduate, to whom much that is here will be familiar, will hardly summon up a remembrance of things past from his school-days, which now glow with all the romance natural to retrospection, for the book is learned and scholarly, as indeed it should be to justify its membership as Volume 25 in the Harvard Studies in Education. Yet all readers will find sufficient, if they persist, to hold their eye to the page, even if the history of the school is in the last analysis, somewhat monotonous because, in the words of Mr. George Santayane, it has been...
Selected from a list of 41 recommendations by proctors in the Yard, the membership of the new committee includes the following: Robert W. Anderson, John O. Bates, Oliver P. Bolton, Peter F. Cunningham. Robert T. Gannett, 2nd, J. Gorden Gilkey, Jr., Finlay H. Perry, Harvey M. Rose, and Edward H. Schoyer
...compared with the treatment accorded the Jewish sportsmen. I refer specifically to the alternative which the Nazis have presented to their political and religious opponents: either practise under the supervision of our "Fuehrers" or don't practise at all. You know, for example, that the Deutsche Jugendkraft with a membership of over 100,000 throughout Baden was dissolved. Mr. Bingham implies that because the Nazis have promised not to discriminate against Jewish athletes that there would therefore be no discrimination. Are we to take the gilt-aged invitations issued to Gretel Bergman and Helene Mayer as satisfactory evidence of their...