Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...darkness we cry: "Do stop reasoning about the advantages and disadvantages of such a club, long enough to tell us what the club shall be." When we know this, we will judge of its value. How shall the club be organized? What accommodations will it provide? What tests of membership, if any, shall there be. These and many other questions suggest themselves whenever a university club is mentioned. Both sides of the question will receive better appreciation, I am sure, if their partisans will tell us, as definitely as can be, the nature of that about which they reason...
...belongs to some Club where members, manners, opinions, expenditures, are all to his taste, will confine himself almost altogether to that club, or, if I may so use the phrase, the active membership of the proposed University Society will consist of those students who prefer loafing in public to loafing in private in some friends room, of those professors who have time to give to the club, and of those students who come to meet the professors...
...Given a membership of a thousand and suppose a daily attendance of a hundred; any given hundred would return to the club only once in ten days, and this if all the thousand frequented the club. As a matter of fact, only a small proportion would use the club at all and in either case its clique-demolishing work would be small...
...toboggan club at Yale has raised the limit of its membership from two hundred to three hundred...
...very probable that Exeter Academy will add another toboggan slide to the already long list of those existing in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It is proposed to organize a club of one hundred members with a membership fee of $4.00; non-members shall be obliged to pay for admission or can obtain season tickets at rates to be hereafter decided...