Word: membership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Another question the Council has taken up has been the question of compulsory membership in the Union. A committee was appointed to take charge of this and several open discussions have been held at the Union...
...provides lectures of great interest and profit, and furnishes club accommodations for sixteen hundred men. It is, unfortunately, in the anomalous position of serving the entire University, and yet being supported as a private club. The CRIMSON will gladly print sane expressions of opinion on the question of compulsory membership,--but no more such childish and destructive comments as that appearing today...
...accused of snobbishness, and for years now this fanciful democratic spirit has hypnotized the minds of men who should have seen and known. The Union has not attained the goal for which it was begun; the Union is a failure; and in order to revive the dying institution, compulsory membership is urged...
Compulsory membership will not prevent the Union's death; it will merely delay it. From the attitude which undergraduates have held toward the Union, all can see that the Union with its glorious ideals of democracy is doomed...
Compulsory membership is preposterous. If a minority of the college members use the Union, then a majority of them do not. Compulsory membership, therefore, will wrong the majority. Compulsory membership will set up a dangerous precedent. No one has appeared before the Student Council to point this out, for no one greatly cares what, if anything, is done by the Student Council; but everyone knows that if compulsory membership is introduced in a social club like the Union, we shall soon be taxed for the support of the Goodies' Aggregation, the Janitors' Junto, and the Harvard Square Business Thieves' League...