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Elected. Wallace Brett Donham, Dean of the School of Business Administration of Harvard University; to be a director of Royal Baking Powder Co., chairman of its finance committee. Dean Donham has other directorships (coal, gas, banks, travel agency...
...tenth, it is accepted if he hasn't used the Union. If he has used the union, a consultation with Mr. Marsh at Lehman Hall will make the resignation effective. If a man applies orally to resign after the tenth, he must see Mr, Marsh. Our record of Mr. Donham follows: Saturday he appeared at Lehman Hall and protested. Mr. Marsh was out and it was understood that Mr. Donham would return Monday. He did not. Tuesday Mr. Donham used the Union restaurant. Wednesday his letter appeared...
...Donham's more basic attack against the system of requiring resignation rather than rejoining is easily met. Until 1923 the system he advocates was operative. Because so few men failed to rejoin and because of the high clerical expenses invoiced, this system was abandoned and that used by all private clubs adopted. Notice of the need of resigning has been given in the opening bulletin at the registration points and the CRIMSON. Sincerely yours, W. S. Stone, Secretary to the Governing Board...
...yesterday's CRIMSON Mr. Donham, of the class of 1930, set forth several objections to the practice followed by the Harvard Union of regarding all its members as permanent until their definitive resignations have been received. In place of the present arrangement he favored a plan of annual membership; each membership to lapse completely if not specifically renewed...
Whatever may have been the errors in the facts stated by Mr. Donham, his main point is valid. The Union is not essentially a club, and is not so regarded by most of the men who join it. In view of this fact it can find little justification in regulating its membership according to ordinary club rules. Mr. Stone, graduate secretary of the Union, whose communication regarding this question is printed elsewhere in these columns, reveals the strongest reason in support of the Union's present practice, when he says that under other conditions, the membership rolls would show...