Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...demand at that time of the year for the goods in which the society professes to deal. In the latter part of May and in June the opening of the tennis season, and the low rates offered by the society in tennis goods, caused a rapid increase in the membership, which was well sustained till the end of the year by the facilities offered for the sale of second hand goods. No names were added during the summer, but at the beginning of the academic year a second large accession to the number took place, owing to the entrance...
...arrangement now in force the term of membership of many of the members - those, that is, who have joined for half a year only - expires on the 22d of this month. The membership of the society will thus suddenly be very greatly diminished...
...fall again the accession will be large, and in the middle of next October, and not till then, will the society have regained its full membership...
...reasonable to expect that the membership will then be somewhat larger than it is at present, owing to the increasing scope of the society and the wider recognition of its services, together with the decrease in the pressure required to make men join, which will inevitably take place, as the familiarity with the society and its workings becomes more general...
...total membership of the society from its foundation has numbered 713 persons, distributed through the various departments of the university in the following proportions...