Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hardly see the necessity of crying out against it now. The chief complaint, however, relates to the representation which the Inter-Collegiate Association is allowed in the conventions of the Athletic Association. "They did not, it is true, refuse the petition of the I. C. A. A. for membership in their select number," wails the News. "No; they granted them membership and - one vote. The full value of this tremendous concession can only be realized when the status of the two associations is remembered." And the News goes on to give the following information, clipped from the Spirit...
...facts of the case are that the Inter-Collegiate Association never asked for more than one vote and never desired more than one vote. Its object in asking for membership in the Amateur Association was not for the purpose of absorbing the association or controlling its meetings. It thought it would be desirable to effect if possible a community of feeling between the two associations, and so asked for an opportunity to be allowed to bring the views of college athletes before the convention of the Amateur Association. For this purpose one delegate is amply sufficient, and the College Association...
...Will the I. C. A. A. so far forget her self-respect as to accept membership in the A. A. A. on such terms?" is the indignant question with which the News closes its invective. We sincerely hope that the I. C. A. A. will not so far forget its self-respect as to refuse an invitation, asked for by itself, simply because it is informed from outside sources that it has been unfairly treated...
...question of co-education has been agitated considerably at the University of Pennsylvania since a young lady passed the entrance examinations to the freshman class last year and applied to the faculty for membership. The secretary of the faculty of science is very much in favor of co-education, but the secretary of the faculty of arts - that department which the young lady wanted to enter - is opposed to the scheme, At a joint meeting of the two faculties to consider the advisability of admitting women to the collegiate departments of the university, it was carried in the affirmative...
...Society of Natural History of the Eastern United States has recently been organized. Harvard, Princeton, Union, Columbia, Williams, Amherst, Johns Hopkins, Yale and other colleges were represented by their natural history professors. The membership is limited to teachers and professionals in some branch of natural history...