Word: membership
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college Greek-letter fraternities in the United States have a membership of 100,000, with some 650 active and 350 inactive chapters. They own 70 houses or halls in various college towns and citles...
That the University is steadily growing is shown nowhere more clearly than in the increased membership of the freshman class this year. Last year's class numbered 399, while the catalogue this year shows a freshman class numbering 462, a gain of 63 over last year. This number does not include members of the Lawrence Scientific School, whose freshman class numbers 106, fifteen more than last year. In the membership of the College freshman class, Massachusetts is most largely represented, having a total of 277 men. Of these, 183 come from cities and towns within a radius of ten miles...
...first regular meeting of the Union after mid-years will take place Friday evening, February 14, in Sever 11, when a competitive debate for membership will be held. The subject will be: "Resolved, that the attitude of the United States government on the Venezuela question should be commended." The competition is open to all members of the University and it is urged that men who intend to try for the Yale debate avail themselves of this opportunity for preliminary practice...
Twelve hundred students have already joined the Houston Club and only a few days ago membership cards were still being issued at the rate of eighty a day. It is expected that by the end of the month nearly every member of the university will have joined. A great many graduates have become associate members. The expectations of the promoters of the club have already been more than realized. That there was need of such a meeting place for the students is already indicated by the large numbers who daily frequent the hall...
...quite evident that the feeling of the meeting, though conservative, was strongly in favor of the club. A vote was finally passed giving over the report and further conduct of the plans to a committee of ten, to be appointed by the chairman, with power to increase its membership. The committee was instructed to send a circular to the graduates calling for a general expression of opinion and to ascertain how many graduates would be likely to pay a non-resident membership fee of not over five dollars...