Word: membership
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This allowance for absence, something which has never before been given at the Hall, is the critical point in the new scheme. It will probably entail a loss of at least $100 a week, which must be made up by increase in membership, either transient of permanent, if the finances of the Hall are not to be disastrously affected. Since the mid-year examination period closed the membership list has been growing and is now 920. The Hall can be run most economically when the membership is about 1200, and if that figure is reached the Directors of the Hall...
...class of men, who, if they do not neglect the opportunities offered, will by their support enable the association to run on a still more economical basis. Regular members, also, should not forget that the $4 a week guarantee is only a temporary measurer, and that if the membership increases substantially, the cost can be brought well below that figure...
Bucknell, Colgate, Boston University, Georgetown, and Lafayette were dropped from membership in the association. A vote of thanks to Harvard and Pennsylvania for having offered the use of their athletic fields for previous meetings was passed...
...That any associate college that is not represented during two consecutive years at the annual field meet by at least three men, or by at least five men at the annual cross-country run, shall forfeit its membership...
...better system was being inaugurated. However this may be, the scheme was adopted by a substantial margin, and deserves all support for the month of march, if the trial is to be a fair one. There are many men, not now enrolled as members, to whom a transient membership should be a great convenience, and many more who will be attracted by the low cost of regular board now assured. To those who have studied the scheme carefully, its rational provisions for all classes of members leave no doubt of its deserved success...