Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general corruption. The Hoover-for-President Club admits that the signature in question was not genuine; but its presence is known to be the result of a curious type of practical joke from an independent source, combined with carelessness on the part of one of our workers, whose membership sheet was not turned in until after the charges had appeared in the CRIMSON. Since then we have checked over our list of members with a view both to authenticity of the individual signatures and as to numbers. We have found that the total exceeds the 445 names reported...
...Hoover-for-President Club are joint organizations, differing only in so far as the former is a permanent Republican organization, while the latter, with the present campaign as its sole interest, makes a special appeal to Hoover Democrats and Independents. The two clubs have carefully avoided any duplications in membership...
...yesterday's CRIMSON Mr. Donham, of the class of 1930, set forth several objections to the practice followed by the Harvard Union of regarding all its members as permanent until their definitive resignations have been received. In place of the present arrangement he favored a plan of annual membership; each membership to lapse completely if not specifically renewed...
...Freshman year, I joined the Harvard Union. I used my membership enough so that I again joined in my Sophomore year. That year, I found I hardly ever entered the building when I could not have done so as a non-member, so I determined not to join again. Thinking that I would be automatically dropped unless I signed up again as in the two previous years, I merely ignored the Union. But the Union did not ignore me. It seems that when I first joined I made an agreement that I would notify the Union of my intention...
...this way, there would be no men caught in the manner in which I was caught and forced to pay ten dollars for a membership which had proven not worth that much to me. Under such an agreement, men not likely to frequent the Union would not have to visit it to resign, and men likely to visit the Union would have to waste only a moment's time signing up for another year. Sincerely yours, Philip Donham...