Word: membership
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be considered, and a large attendance is desired. The order of business will be as follows: selection of a name for the Association; consideration of the desirability of affiliation with other associations of college men who are farmers; discussion of proposed plan of summer meetings; fixation of a membership fee; consideration of the establishment of an office in Cambridge where information can be assembled and distributed to members; election of permanent officers...
...results. Undeniably on the margin there are some men, with qualifications nearly or even practically as good as the last few men chosen, who yet fail to be elected. This is inevitable, for the line must be drawn somewhere. The prestige of the society and the value of membership in it depend upon restricted numbers. It must also be remembered that Phi Beta Kappa does not claim to reward latent mental ability: it bases its elections upon scholarly achievement in College and evidence of scholarly promise...
...meeting will open with a parade and review of all the boys. There are 10 districts in the Greater Boston Council, with a total membership of 2,137, so that the operations will be on a large scale. The remainder of the afternoon will be devoted to contests between the ten districts in the events which compose the usual routine of scout work. There will be signaling, both by arms and by heliograph or mirrors, first-aid work. Knot-tieing, portable wireless work, and setting up temporary encampments. The best men from each district have been selected for the competitions...
...magna cum laude, and summa cum laude, also by the name of the field in which distinction, of varying degree, has been won. Academic positions will be noted only in the case of permanent appointments to presidencies, professorships, and the like. The number of learned societies in which membership is credited will be somewhat reduced. It is obvious that the rapidly growing number of graduates must necessitate some abridgement...
...size. The work of the council is hindered, not by its individual members, but by the size of the body itself. A reduction in size is being agitated. There is no question that the Student Council will attain its full efficiency only after an appreciable reduction in membership is made...