Word: membership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Memorial Hall: Closed during recess. Men need not sign off as no meals will be served. Members may transfer to Foxcroft Hall without payment of usual membership...
Last year the financial statement showed a loss of seven thousand dollars. One might think by this that the Union is not used by undergraduates. On the contrary, the membership and the daily use of the many assembly rooms for meetings of every character uphold the belief of its invaluable utility. The real reason for the deficit can be traced to the unnecessary burdens placed upon the Union in the form of taxes and rent amounting to thousands of dollars yearly. Although the Governing Board consisting largely of undergraduates see clearly the obstacles in the path of the Union...
...Governing Board of the Union at a meeting yesterday afternoon decided to demand action on the question of compulsory membership in the Union, which was voted upon favorably by the entire University last spring. In the following letter to the chairman of the Administrative Board of the University and the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Union, a speedy change in the organization of the Union is requested in accordance with the decision of the University in May. The vote at that time was 926 for and 308 against compulsory membership. The complete text of the letter follows...
...conclusively proved that the Harvard Union cannot exist as a social club in its present weak status, both financially and economically; since the undergraduate officers of the Union were given to understand by the College authorities in May, 1916, that in the event of an affirmative majority on the membership question by the undergraduate body, that the annual fee at a reduced rate would be placed on each undergraduate's term bill; and since the vote showed a three-to-one majority in favor of the above proposition; we, the undersigned Governing Board of the Harvard Union, do hereby earnestly...
...member of the Army, Navy or Marine Corps of the United States or of the National Guard or Naval Militia shall be eligible for membership in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps...