Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston Association of the Brown Alumni will hold their eleventh annual rennion on February 13 at Young's Hotel, Boston. The association includes in its membership the alumni of Boston and vicinity, and those of Providence are invited. The New York association holds its reunion next month under the direction of the President, Mr. George William Curtis. Dr. Robinson and probably one or two other members of the faculty are expecting to attend this latter meeting...
...Debating Society, with a membership of about forty, was established recently. The society "system" differs at Brown from that found at most of the New England colleges. There are no chapter buildings here, nor any society houses. The halls are all in city buildings, the locations of which are supposed to be profound mysteries. It was rumored a few months ago that another fraternity was seeking entrance here. The ground has been well covered, and a new society would find it hard to obtain suitable members...
...article in the Advertiser says: "The Ohio College Association has been re-organized. Instead of including every 'college' with a charter, the new association limits its membership to colleges which require a preparatory course, including Greek and plane geometry, and give a degree only to students who have taken a four year's course, in which a certain required amount of work is done." By this change from the original plan more than half of the so-called colleges of the State are barred from admittance to the new association. Thus the line is distinctly drawn between these better institutions...
...opinion are, in part, the almost total disappearance of those organizations that in the early days of college fraternities mistook the true purposes of those societies to be such as must lower the intellectual and moral tone of their members, the careful maintenance of a high standard of membership by the influential fraternities, the better understanding of the fraternity system by its honest opponents, and finally the sheer exhaustion of those that heretofore have maintained a vigorous tilt at the windmill for exercise's sake, on finding that the windmill stands the attack much better than they...
...recent inter-collegiate convention of the Y. M. C. A. at Amherst, the Harvard delegates reported a membership of 70 at the college with constant additions and frequent meetings...