Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Affiliated tradesmen of the Co-operative Society are expected to keep a book in which each member when claiming the benefit of the membership in the society will be required to sign his name. The signature must correspond with the one on the member's ticket...
...religious census of Amherst College, just taken by Dr. Hitchcock, shows a total church membership of 230 students in the following ratio: Seniors, 70 per cent.; juniors, 70; sophomores, 63; freshmen, 55; average, 65. The denominations most largely represented are: Congregational, 158; Presbyterian, 30; Episcopalian and Methodist, seven each, the remainder being divided among the Baptist, Lutheran, Dutch Reformed, Catholic and others...
...This then has been the gain to the members of the society alone, through the lowering of prices, but the actual saving to students through the lowering of prices, due to the society, has been very much larger. It is sometimes argued that so long as the membership of the society is large enough to keep it in existence, those who have not joined can reap the full benefit of the society, i. e., the lowering of prices, while they need not pay the yearly dues of two dollars. But this is not strictly true, for the larger the membership...
...catalogue membership of the undergraduate department is 888, and the ratio of the totals thus given approximates...
...greatest receipts were at the beginning of the academic year; a second rise occurs in January, owing to the large sales of stationery and the change in the books, etc., the membership then being at its maximum...