Word: membership
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...value are carried in stock, that none are sold or delivered without cash in hand, that all second-hand goods deposited for sale are at owners' risk, that all coal ordered is paid for in advance, and that the society depends - not on its commission, but on its membership fees - for its support, it will be made clear that no loss can accrue to any one from the society's failure, and that the only things which can cause its failure are embezzlement or the dwindling away of its members. While these figures serve to show the actual purchasing fund...
...With a membership of 700 students, the society is assured of a cash income of $1,400; and if in the course of the year a business of $50,000 is done, which is not an immoderate estimate, the income from commissions, which average about two per cent. would reach $1,000, giving a total income of nearly $2,500, or more than enough to enable the society to be successful. The greatest danger to which the Harvard society is exposed is internal dissension. Students are too apt to follow blindly the lead of a few men. It was this...
...Williams College congress. The 'Logian Society acts as the senate and the 'Technian as the house of representatives. The U. S. Congress is taken as the model and closely followed in all its workings. The movement has awakened a new interest in the societies, attracting a largely increased membership in each. Thus far the success of the plan has fully met the expectations of its originators, and seems now to give promise of being a permanent success...
There will be an important business meeting of the Glee Club this evening at 7.30, for the purpose of nominating candidates for associate membership. After the meeting there will be a rehearsal, at which all members (regular and probation) are expected to be present...
...cooks and upon the table food not approved by his boarders. Other charges contained in the article, as they relate to matters within the observation of all the members, it is not incumbent here to touch upon. In justice, however, the association should know that the unexpectedly large membership necessitated the employment of additional service to such an extent that it was impossible to secure the best. The process of "weeding out" is taking place as fast as good waiters...