Word: membership
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should further be noticed that there is a waiting list of over 600 for the hall, that the places of those who leave the hall on account of poor fare will be filled from this list, and that there is thus no prospect of a decrease in membership. It is true that less than fifty have left the hall since October first, but that is because good board in Cambridge is expensive, and does not show that the management of the hall can not be improved...
...early days of the association, when the membership was about six hundred, there were effective checks against the board becoming either too good or too bad. To quote the pamphlet distributed last year: "A secondary reason for keeping the board low is that a marked increase in price would cause a decrease in membership More over, the steward has a direct pecuniary interest in keeping the price down. With board at $4.00 he draws the full amount of his salary; as soon as the price rises above that his salary is proportionately decreased. He is, however, prevented from seeking cheapness...
...association now numbers 1120 and has a waiting list of several hundred, which evidently presents fluctuations in membership on account of changes in the quality of board furnished. There is, therefore, no longer any check against poor board. This is exactly the point of the present protest...
...addition to the existing rule about conditional men, it has been decided that henceforth no one who has been dropped at the term examinations shall be eligible, for one year, to membership on any university team...
...Choate, as chairman of the meeting, read aloud the constitution submitted by the committee chosen to draw it up, and several amendments were made. In brief, it states that the membership shall be open to all members of the University and that the purpose of the association shall be to promote and control the golfing interests of the University. It provides for the election of officers, for amending the constitution, and states that the dues shall be determined each year by a vote of the club...