Word: membership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unfair splitting up of the two upper classes into groups which form the "big clubs" and the "little clubs"; there will be obliterated the unwarrantable award which comes to a man when elected to a so-called "big club"; there will be eliminated the stigma which attaches to membership in no club; there will be destroyed that feeling of almost insignificance which members of small clubs have, so far as affects their association with members of the big clubs...
...shouldn't membership in a big club constitute a lawful reward and acknowledgment of achievement, it may be asked. If to belong to any club on Prospect was in itself an indication that a member had done something to merit honor and distinction, that question might be a fit one for argument. But merit is not the criterion of election. It is rather type. In every one of the big clubs, it is the effort of those in charge of the election to secure men of the same stamp as themselves and their club-mates. This makes a rigid system...
...should report to P. C. Lewis '17, Thayer 26, Monday at 7. Two positions are open on the business staff of the club and will be filled from the candidates who come out for the work in connection with the spring production. The successful competitors will be elected to membership in the club and will be taken in at the annual dinner...
Citizens of the United States who are capable of performing special useful service in the Navy, or in connection with the Navy in defence of the coast, are eligible for membership in the Naval Coast Defence Reserve, United States Naval Reserve Force...
...Military Training Camps Association of the United States, with a membership of 20,000 men all over the country, who have attended the camps, has divided the work for 1917 into four departments to correspond with the military departments of the army. In each department there will be two classes, the senior division, for all men from 18 to 45 years of age, who are citizens of the United States, or who have taken out their first papers and are of good moral character, and the other, the junior division, for boys from 15 to 18 years...