Word: member
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whereas under the Club Agreement, among the practices prohibited under the head of 'canvassing' is that of notifying any undergraduate 'indirectly' that he is, or is not, under consideration as a future member of any club...
...therefore, voted: It is the sense of this Committee that this restriction will be violated, if a club member, or members, cultivate the acquaintance of any undergraduate before the opening of his Sophomore year with such persistance as to indicate to him that he is under consideration as a future member, of the club to which said club member, or members, belong...
...Canvassing is here defined as "reading" or speaking or making to any undergraduate any statement or presentation about any club, or notifying him directly or indirectly that he is or is not under consideration as a future member of any club...
...pledge or promise shall be accepted or taken from any undergraduate before the Friday following the fourth Monday after the opening of College in his Sophomore year by any club or by any member thereof to the effect that he will join any club or that he will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduates or upon any of the said clubs agreeing thereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement...
...class of 1933 enters college its members are reminded to what an extent modern practice has robbed education of its former terrors. The pace of the average freshman across the campus no longer bears any relation to that of the snail. Education has been made as painless as possible. If, in easing entrance requirements so as to admit the vast numbers who are now candidates for degrees in America, the college authorities have sacrificed scholarship, they have added to the adolescent's joy in life. Addressing the students of Columbia at the formal opening of its one hundred and seventy...