Word: membership
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...placing of the membership dues on the term bills probably assures the future success of the Union; for experience during the past year has shown that this method of paying membership fees solves the greatest problem which confronts the Union--the financial problem. Two changes were made in the dining room during the year which has just closed. Colored waiters were introduced; and music by an orchestra of four pieces has been provided during the luncheon and dinner hours. Smoking has been permitted throughout the three rooms in the library, rather than in the North room only; and an arrangement...
...three years the Union was largely an experiment. In 1904-05 several fundamental improvements were made. These gave the Union a more definite place in the University. It was more and more recognized as the natural social centre of the whole University rather than a club, with an exclusive membership. During the past year the improvements made in 1904-05 have been well extended, and better worked out in detail. This more complete carrying out of the innovations begun in 1904-05, together with such changes as placing the dues on the term bills improvements in the dining room...
...most striking and encouraging thing about the Union in the past year has been its large and inclusive membership (it has never had so many members); and the use which this membership has made of this splendid institution. The Union is no longer regarded simply as a convenient place in which to hold meetings or lectures. It is a place to "drop around to" for a meal, to read and study, to get telegraphic in which Harvard teams are competing, or to meet one's friends. The great and surprisingly varied possibilities of the Union are being realized more...
...reserved. There will be informal dancing throughout the evening in the Living Room beginning at 8 o'clock. The ladies' dressing rooms will be upstairs. The entrances and exits will be by the gate on Harvard street and by the main door. No one who is eligible for membership may be introduced...
After 5.30 o'clock tomorrow only those holding tickets to the spread will be admitted. The entrances and exits will be by the gate on Harvard street and by the main door. No one who is eligible for membership in the Union may be introduced. The lawn south of the building will be enclosed and supper will be served there between 6 and 8 o'clock. Gott's orchestra will play throughout the evening, and dancing in the Living Room will begin at 8 o'clock...