Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of its devotees is rapidly increasing. Combining, as it does, the requisites of exercise, amusement, and excitement, it offers strong inducements to lovers of out-door sports. The popularity of the sport is shown by the existence of the American Canoe Association, which now has a membership of over eight hundred, which is rapidly increasing. This association holds annual meets, which are attended by a large number of gentlemen from both the United States and Canada, and at which canoe races of all varieties are held, the competition being very great. The A. C. A. meet was held this...
...Canoe Club is at present made up mostly from the upper classes and from graduates, and it is hoped that men from the lower classes will not be slow in availing themselves of the advantages offered by the club. It is hoped that the membership may be much increased, and that next year the Harvard Canoe Club may make a good showing, and compare favorably with the other clubs at the A. C. A. meet at Grindstone Island...
...understood, simply because he has not had the necessary training which it is the object of the Union to give. No one who intends to be a lawyer, minister, or other public speaker, can hope for success unless he has had some preparation of this kind. Membership is open to all students of the University; and even if one may not take an active part in its proceedings, he cannot be otherwise than benefited by attendance on the debates...
...some men who prefer to avail themselves of the club's privileges without paying the merely nominal fee required. It has been decided to prevent this "dead-head" occupation of ours, that no person shall be allowed to use an association court unless prepared to show a certificate of membership, and it is hoped that this course will result both in increasing the membership of the club, and in protecting the interests of its members...
After this week no one will be allowed to use the college tennis courts without exhibiting a certificates of membership...