Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yearly meetings will serve to awaken discussion regarding the best methods of conducting papers and to bring out ideas which may prove useful to those who desire to raise their papers to as high a degree of excellence as possible. Nor will the feeling of friendship, naturally encouraged by membership in an association, be without its good results. For journalistic quarrelling, however exciting it may be to editors themselves, cannot be interesting to readers and does not serve any useful purpose...
...success of the association is already assured by its large membership, and there is every reason to expect that the membership and, consequently, the usefulness of the association, will be largely increased by another year...
WILLIAMSThe Argo favors the scheme. "To us," it says, "this division of forces and reformation of associations, seems eminently practicable and desirable. In the first place the old scheme would make the membership of the league too great for a large or advantageous series of games between the different nines, and in the second place, such a game as Williams would play with a nine which stands any chance for the championship would be neither as profitable nor interesting as one with a nine more nearly her equal in strength...
...Wednesday A. M.; if not, the money will be refunded at that time. Each person paying and signing should state the length of time he will be away. To members of the society not going to or passing through N. Y. there will be allowed, on presentation of membership ticket at Sheldon's ticket office, 276 Washington street, Boston, a discount from the regular fare nominally greater than others can obtain. Each member will be able to purchase as many tickets as he desires, and non-members can secure from the undersigned the same advantage. The reduction from the regular...
...contrary, we think, is to afford chance for enjoyable sport to the colleges engaged, and to keep alive and stimulate an interest in athletics. If perpetual defeat can be the only lot of the smaller colleges, we do not see what pleasure or profit they can gain from membership. The ideal aim of keeping alive inter-collegiate amity and good feeling is all very well and is undoubtedly one of the subsidiary objects of the league; but to claim this as its chief object is absurd. We hope our friends at Williams will see the justice of these considerations...