The principal aims of the guild are to represent the student body within the college, to provide guidance and advice to students and to organise an ongoing programme of social and sporting activities.

It has been suggested that plunge divers are restricted in their hunting grounds to clear waters that afford a view of their prey from the air, and while they are the dominant guild in the tropics, the link between plunge diving and water clarity is inconclusive.

As the two work for the mercenary guild and travel to war-torn countries around the world, Albert begins to see a link between the civil conflicts, the Bergen coup d ' état, and an organization only known as " The Society ".

Each guild had its own monopoly, and tradesmen might not belong to more than one.

At its origins, a doctorate was simply a qualification for a guild — that of teaching law.

Those that gave French produce its characteristic identity were regulated by the guild system, which developed in the Middle Ages.

Contained within Economic Sophisms is the famous satirical parable known as the " Candlemakers ' petition " which presents itself as a demand from the candlemakers ' guild to the French government, asking the government to block out the Sun to prevent its unfair competition with their products.

The medieval guild was established by charters or letters patent or similar authority by the city or the ruler and normally held a monopoly on trade in its craft within the city in which it operated: handicraft workers were forbidden by law to run any business if they were not members of a guild, and only masters were allowed to be members of a guild.

Two of the most outspoken critics of the guild system were Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith, and all over Europe a tendency to oppose government control over trades in favour of laissez-faire free market systems was growing rapidly and making its way into the political and legal system.

Karl Marx in his Communist Manifesto also criticized the guild system for its rigid gradation of social rank and the relation of oppressor / oppressed entailed by this system.

The work draws much of its charm from its faithful depiction of the Nuremberg of the era and the traditions of the Mastersinger guild.

Other guilds presented scenes appropriate to their trade: the building of the Ark from the carpenters ' guild ; the five loaves and fishes parable from the bakers and the adoration, with its offerings of gold, frankincense and myrrh, from the goldsmiths.

In 1893, Durkheim introduced the concept of anomie to describe the mismatch of collective guild labour to evolving societal needs when the guild was homogeneous in its constituency.

Until its use was formally discontinued in 2000, it was the sole pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America ( DGA ) when a director, dissatisfied with the final product, proved to the satisfaction of a guild panel that he or she had not been able to exercise creative control over a film.

The guild democracy movement of the period won its greatest successes among London's transport workers, most notably the Thames Watermen, who democratized their company in 1641-43.

Henry II created a monastic guild, the " Brethren of the Bridge ", to oversee all work on London Bridge, and in 1163 its Warden, Peter of Colechurch, supervised the bridge's last rebuilding in timber.

The largest guild in Strasbourg, the Gärtner or Gardeners, appointed him as its pastor on 24 August 1523.

Within the guild, the young Mage will have to prove himself and is framed in its infancy by a master who taught him his first spell and ensure its training and its protection.

The Goldsmiths ' Company was established in the 12th-century as a medieval guild for goldsmiths, silversmiths and jewellers ; as such, the College is proud to remain connected with its original educational roots.

He became a member of the ruling oligarchy of the guild, serving as its clerk ; it is mainly through his writings that history is familiar with the watermen's disputes of 1641 – 42, in which an attempt was made to democratize the leadership of the Company.

The guild passes on information about different spells to its members, along with magical gossip.

The first evidence of decorated trees associated with Christmas Day are trees in guild halls decorated with sweets to be enjoyed by the apprentices and children.

A Bremen guild chronicle of 1570 reports that a small tree decorated with " apples, nuts, dates, pretzels and paper flowers " was erected in the guild-house for the benefit of the guild members ' children, who collected the dainties on Christmas Day.

The guild system reached a mature state in Germany circa 1300 and held on in the German cities into the 19th century, with some special privileges for certain occupations remaining today.

In the countryside, where guild rules did not operate, there was freedom for the entrepreneur with capital to organize cottage industry, a network of cottagers who spun and wove in their own premises on his account, provided with their raw materials, perhaps even their looms, by the capitalist who took a share of the profits.

The exclusive privilege of a guild to produce certain goods or provide certain services was similar in spirit and character with the original patent systems that surfaced in England in 1624.

Signs of guild behavior in real estate brokerage include: standard pricing ( 6 % of the home price ), strong affiliation among all practitioners, self-regulation ( see National Association of Realtors ), strong cultural identity ( see Realtor ), little price variation with quality differences, and traditional methods in use by all practitioners.

Apprentices ( Ph. D .) student must work for years at very low wages assisting their Masters ( faculty ) and must produce an approved master work ( Dissertation ) before they can go work for others ( tenure track appointments virtually require a Ph. D., and any Ph. D. candidate who leaves their master prior to getting their Ph. D .- trying to transfer to another Ph. D. program-will have to start all over again, or give up ever becoming a guild member with the result of permanent impovrishment in the insecure life of an adjunct faculty member ).

Vannoccio Biringuccio, born in 1480, was a member of the guild Fraternita di Santa Barbara but broke with the tradition of secrecy by setting down everything he knew in a book titled De la pirotechnia, written in vernacular.

The following year he married Margarethe Herlin, joined the guild " zur Steltz ", opened a workshop, and began signing his works with the HGB monogram that he used for the rest of his career.

Crete was under Venetian control from 1204 and became a thriving center of art with eventually a Scuola di San Luca, or organized painter's guild on Western lines.

Orhan did not continue with any other conquests in Anatolia except taking over Ankara from the commercial-religious fraternity guild of Ahis.

Renaissance painters traditionally began an apprenticeship with an established master at about the age of 12 ; Masaccio would likely have had to move to Florence to receive his training, but he was not documented in the city until he joined the painters guild ( the Arte de ' Medici e Speziali ) as an independent master on January 7, 1422, signing as " Masus S. Johannis Simonis pictor populi S. Nicholae de Florentia.

The political power of the convent slowly waned in the 14th century, beginning with the establishment of the Zunftordnung ( guild laws ) in 1336 by Rudolf Brun, who also became the first independent mayor, i. e. not nominated by the abbess.

These vernacular religious performances were, in some of the larger cities in England such as York, performed and produced by guilds, with each guild taking responsibility for a particular piece of scriptural history.

Jones joined the guild and learned wood and copper engraving as well as experimenting with wood carving.

Some of the features of similarity ( e. g. a thieves ' guild, and a general air of degeneracy ) may instead be common tropes of fantasy literature, although it could be argued, especially in the case of the thieves ' guild, that many of the tropes in question originated with Leiber.

They are named the of Oléron since the island was the site of the maritime court associated with the most powerful seamen's guild of the Atlantic.

It was sister Julie who convinced him to join the local theater guild with her.

There are several community groups in the area such as the Ardcath Macra and a guild of the Irish Countrywomen's Association-these have been around since 1952 and 1948 respectively and often include members of the surrounding towns.

Political and economic relations were drastically influenced by these theories as the concept of the guild was subordinated to the theory of free trade, and Roman Catholic dominance of theology was increasingly challenged by Protestant churches subordinate to each nation-state, which also ( in a fashion the Roman Catholic Church often decried angrily ) preached in the vulgar or native language of each region.

The profession of gondolier is controlled by a guild, which issues a limited number of licenses granted after periods of training and apprenticeship, and a major comprehensive exam which tests knowledge of Venetian history and landmarks, foreign language skills, and practical skills in handling the gondola typically necessary in the tight spaces of Venetian canals.

* Mellonath Daeron, the language guild of the Stockholm Tolkien Society.