Word: membership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...another column the CRIMSON publishes a communication, full of bombast and misstatement, on the subject of compulsory membership for the Union, simply in the hope that it will arouse interest in the matter and lead to a full and well-considered expression of opinion. The indifference in regard to this vital question has been amazing. If the undergraduate mind could be stirred up to thought regarding the proposed step, those favoring it would not have to work in the dark...
...subjects that interest them too difficult. This seems surprising, and one wonders who gives them their ideas of the comparative difficulty of courses. One wonders, too, what kind of recognition the editor thinks that the rest of the College should give to the Harvard Poetry Society. Is not membership in such a society its own reward? Do the members really have any grievance, or feel that they are "Forced into a defensive self-seclusion by undergraduate carelessness...
...recent open discussions compulsory membership for the Union has met with no opposition; but from scattered murmurs it becomes evident that a few do not favor the movement wholeheartedly. If a good pool is built in the Union, how many of the conservatives would consider compulsory membership an exorbitant demand? The proposed reduced fee would be money well spent if swimming facilities for a year were the only return...
...Clark '96, graduate treasurer of the Union, made the announcement that Major Higginson, the donor of the Union, had expressed the opinion that compulsory membership, to his mind, would be the one solution of the difficult problem of securing undergraduate support for the Union...
...scheme which was out-lined was that compulsory membership should be adopted for the present until the deficit was tided over, after which the voluntary membership system should be resumed...