Oxford and Cambridge Club, Gladstone's membership of, i.
Gladstone's membership for, effect of, on his career, i.
To-day the Baptist Church is still largest in membership among Negroes, and has a million and a half communicants.
Membership is finally confirmed by the issuance of a membership card or a membership book.
Moreover, membership in the league, with his aptitude for making a speech, would give him standing among the negro leaders all over the State.
Confining our attention to marriage, we see that membership in the conjugal union is an indispensable means to reasonable life and self development in the majority of persons.
The membership to-day is about two and three quarter millions.
The women must be roped in somehow, and even the most precarious organisation may have a distinct educational value in evoking in its members the germ of a sense of class-solidarity and membership with their fellows.
It is also true that the numbers in actual membership are not a complete measure of the numbers under the direct influence and guidance of the Unions.
Women were not, it is true, prohibited from joining Trade Unions, but the line between political and trade societies is not in practice always easy to draw, and full membership of Unions has thus been often hindered.
The Industrial Workers of the World, a Labour Society with a revolutionary programme, has a large membership of unskilled workers, in textile and other industries.
The policy of labour organisations generally has, however, considerably developed in regard to the affiliation and membership of women.
Therewith they can hardly fail to grasp the latent possibilities of the membership of women.
As a general rule, in spite of the exceptional success of the Weavers' Unions in retaining the continued membership of women, the fact remains that it is still unusual for women to be actively interested in the work of organisation.
Still more recently it has been arranged that each Union with any appreciable membership of women should have a woman organiser.
The organisation is utterly dependent on the membership and solidarity of women, and it has successfully safeguarded their economic interests, but it has been built up mainly by the initiative and under the control of a minority of men.
Would it not be more in keeping with your advanced Christianity if you were to withdraw your membership from your present connection and join a church more fitting to your degree?
I joined the church in which I was converted and still hold my membership there.
She was also informed that not a few of the throng held good membership in various branches of the visible church.
The income from membership dues should be enough to enable the printing of the annual report.
Contributing members shall pay ten dollars annually, this membership including a year's subscription to the American Nut Journal.
In his opening address the president spoke of the need for increased membership and improved financial condition.
The present membership of the association is 337, if we drop no names this year for non-payment of dues.
There shall be a state vice-president from each state, dependency, or country represented in the membership of the association, who shall be appointed by the president.
Regarding the campaign for new members, perhaps the chairman of the committee on membership will make some remarks.
The committee on membership may make recommendations to the association as to the discipline or expulsion of any member.
Membership in the society shall be open to all persons who desire to further nut culture, without reference to place of residence or nationality, subject to the rules and regulations of the committee on membership.
The Independent Odd Fellows had a membership of 506 here, and out of that number lost seventy-nine.
The Independent Order of Heptasophs had a membership of eighty-five, and lost but two.
No candidate for regular membership shall be proposed or seconded by any member of the Committee on Admissions.
No one shall be eligible for regular membership who shall not have killed with the rifle, in fair chase, by still-hunting or otherwise, at least one individual of each of three of the various kinds of American large game.
No person shall be elected to associate membership who is qualified for regular membership, but withheld therefrom by reason of there being no vacancy.
The Committee on Admissions may recommend for regular membership by unanimous vote of its members present at any meeting, any person who is qualified under the foregoing articles of this Constitution.
The right of legally authorizing physicians tomembership of County Medical Societies has been most definitely settled by our courts, and the proceedings to obtain such rights are well understood by many of our members.
Almost every electorate has its Conservative Club and its Liberal Club, to which the only qualification for membership is a sound political faith.
In its vast membership the House of Commons includes experts on every subject under the sun.
Then in the capital and the big provincial towns there are clubs of a more "exclusive" type, membership of which is more or less reserved.
Membership of these clubs is difficult to win, and it carries with it some claim to be considered one of the managing committee of the party.
A show of my card of membership of the Congress (which had carried me through so many of the public buildings) was enough to gain me immediate admission.
As this was private property, my blue card of membership to the Congress was not available.
He said it had long been a puzzle to him, how Americans could hold slaves and still retain their membership in the churches.
I think of a little industrial city of Ontario where there is a church--one of three--with a larger membership than any single church in the city of New York.
In one foreign church in Winnipeg is a membership of four thousand.
One fourth of the membership and probably much more than a fourth of the capital of the association was on the side for the adoption of the system.
The central situation of New York City and its scientific attractions led to a large meeting and an excellent program There were present over sixty members, nearly one half of a membership widely scattered over the country.
Maybe the guy that went and got the proof of their membership would be the one who'd have the trouble.
And from what I hear, this might give you an idea as to themembership of the Hunters, too.
This Convention shall not in any way affect the provisions of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works or membership in the Union created by that Convention.
To the local conferences, women are already being elected, and will do great good if they can get courage to accept their membership practically, and to speak when they have any thing to say.
The membership sought may be granted, provided the actual knowledge of Secular principles be satisfactory, and evident earnestness to practise them be apparent.
Betty Whitridge and Nancy Wellesly have organized a Sinners Class, prerequisites formembership in which are that you play Bridge on Sundays and have abstained from church for at least six months.
I believe the membership of your board is limited to twenty-one.
Stone, previously connected with the board as chief of publicity, was appointed to the vacant membership on the board.
The full list of membership is as follows: Mrs. Parks Fisher, Maryland; Mrs. Mary E.
If there may be said to exist a sort of charter membership in Mr. Cabell's audience, this document is to be construed as representing its very enthusiastic welcome to the later and vastly larger elective membership.
I remember one poor fellow, who had served five years, was refused membership because he had failed to comply with some of the rules.
One of the conditions of membership was that each applicant should pass an examination in seamanship before a committee of the finest sailors in the world.
Of late the question has been raised whether in the beginning hereditary kinship groups existed at all, or whether membership was not rather determined by considerations of an entirely different order.
Membership of the totem kin usually descends directly from parent to child.
The rule of descent for the totem among the Kamilaroi was simpler; membership of a totem kin descends directly from a mother to her child.
And Earl, at a later period, omits in like manner to say what constituted membership of a caste, though he states that they differed in rank.
The composition of the local group varies according to the customs of residence after marriage, and the rules by which membership of the kinship organisation is determined.
In modern society, on the other hand, associations of this sort have entirely disappeared and man is grouped in voluntary societies, membership of which depends on his own choice.
In discussions of the origin and evolution of kinship organisations, we are necessarily concerned not only with their forms but also with the rules of descent which regulate membership of them.
Although membership of a tribe is thus loosely determined, tribesmen feel themselves bound by ties of some kind to their fellow-tribesmen, as we shall see below, but in this they do not differ from the members of any modern state.
Membership of a phratry depends on birth and is taken directly from the mother (matrilineal descent) or father (patrilineal descent).
These associations are of two kinds in the lowest strata of human society; in each case membership is determined by birth and they may therefore be distinguished as natal associations.
Innumerable transitional forms are found, some of which will be mentioned in the next chapter, which deals with the rule of descent by which membership of natal groups is determined.
This dual rule of descent brings us face to face with the question of how membership of kinship groups is determined.
