Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eight months' full membership in the Y. M. C. A. at 316 Huntington Avenue, Boston, is provided to each Freshman, the fee of $11 per man being paid by the Dental School administration. The class meets twice a week throughout the academic year, on Wednesday and Saturday at 12:20 o'clock. Such membership entitles each man to all the privileges of the Y. M. C. A., including the use of the gymnasium, swimming pool, handball and tennis courts, club rooms, lounge, and library, at any time. No requirements are attached to these memberships, other than the two periods...
...compulsory exercise periods is required from upper classmen, but these men may obtain membership through the School authorities. The students pay the fees for these memberships. Every effort is being made by the School administration to induce those of the upper classes to take advantage of this opportunity...
...them for consideration but whose eligibility was incontestable. As years went on this number increased from five to ten and even to 15. This power granted the electing body to search beneath the College grades and to recognize less regular but definite intellectual successes succeeded as calculated in making membership in Phi Beta Kappa a still greater honor than it had been before...
...Last June, a further change was introduced that tended definitely to the same end. At that time it seemed wise to the more experienced minds of the asembly to increase the membership from 45 to 65 from each class and to elect 25 of those men in June on the basis of definite achievement in directed effort or in other words on the strength of their Commencement honors...
...Thus for eligibility at that time, a student must possess a degree magna or summa cum laude. The increase of membership besides honoring these scholars allowed the fraternity to match its growth with that of the University and for the first time in several years has the Chapter represented the traditional 10 percent of the graduating class...