Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clubs, of course, have elaborate establishments. But a number of others are faced with the necessity of building new club houses to keep up with the competition. Some are not too comfortable financially. Would it not be possible to effect the consolidation of two clubs into one with larger membership? Might not conditions later make further consolidations feasible." At first thought this may seem preposterous to alumni who have sentimental attachment to their own particular club. But these alumni try to kept sentiment out of business. Might it not be worthwhile to look reasonably at such a possibility." Although enrollment...
Additional evidence that the glittering key, outward and visible sign of learning and erudition, is still at least as highly desired as those inestimable but nebulous aids to the bond house such as "contacts" and "activities," is revealed in the proposal to increase membership in the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa from 45 to 65 from a class...
Increasing the membership of any organization is indicative of one of two trends. Either the group is slipping down hill and needs reinforcements, new blood, and the strength of numbers, or it is coming to have additional value and power which a slight loss in exclusiveness does not affect. In the particular case of Phi Beta Kappa, however, there is a third element in the increase in eligible candidates...
...Wellesley Hills, James Richard Carter '29 or Newtonville, Dudley Cushman Lewis '30 of Honoluin, Hawall, Richard Stephen Osborne '30 of Pittsfield, John Ferdinand Philipp '30 of New York City, Edward Kuhn Straue '31 of New York City, and Alexander Wells Wilbor '30 of Chesinut Hill, to regular membership...
...Younger Generation is working much harder to maintain its reputation than that Younger Generation which immediately followed the war. The task then was simpler: it was a matter of romance and was spontaneous. Now there are standards of depravity which must be lived down if one is to claim membership among the lost generation. Hemingway, with satire as much in mind as anything, painted the scene not as it was but as the youthful sinners would like to believe it was. And now thousands of his admirers are striving manfully to be worthy to the fame with which...