Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are two types of buyers that have always been a puzzle to me," said Mr. Cole yesterday. "One of them is the man who pays a dollar for a membership card and then buys about three or four dollars worth of merchandise all year, losing 60 cents on his investment. These men take out their membership cards religiously season after season...
...Then there is the other mysterious buyer who spends three or four hundred dollars annually in the "Coop" yet shuns investing enough to buy a membership. There are just as many men of one type as of the other...
...good could come of it to every one. The President was apparently one of the most contented mortals ever heard of. His every quality was as re-assuring as a mother's goodnight kiss, from the childhood readings in Scott, Burns and Whittier to the humble acceptance of membership in the First Congregational Church of Washington right after inauguration. It is, however, a good wind which blows no one any ill. When a certain group of gentlemen in Washington heard of the Barton-Coolidge heart-to-heart they threw into the air, not their hats, but grim imprecations. They...
...attributes, certain characteristics called by some blessings, by others evils. Happily, the system lacks qualities which are the cause of the almost universal criticism of the general fraternal organization rampant in this country. To be more specific, the local clubs are not end alls in themselves, nor are their membership traditions founded upon a uniform standard of extra-curricular activities so that one type is admitted to the exclusion of all others. Fortunately at Harvard nearly every individual may find in some club a congenial group. Consequently, and to the advantage of the system, no very large number of students...
...clubs shall urge their members to change the election to the Institute of 1770 so that the membership therein shall be increased to at least 150 men from each class, and that they shall be initiated therein at the rate of at least 15 men a week, beginning as early as possible in the Sophomore year...