Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips Brooks House began its membership competition last night at a meeting where Ray Goldberg '48, president, and members of the PBH Cabinet explained to nearly 50 prospective candidates the functions of the social organization. Each committee chairman told the assembly of the work carried on by his group and the requirements for membership...
...misogynists, faithfully married men, students with friends at Wellesley, and anybody else, for that matter, PBH recommends its membership meeting scheduled for 7:30 o'clock Monday evening...
...CRIMSON seems to have found it good "copy" to descend to the level of Hearst editorializing. There are such sentences as: The years of lopsided representation, of murky and hazy financial activity, of membership practices that smack of Sigma Chi and the Whiffenpoofs, have neutralized the Council's sincere efforts at constructive leadership...
...what authority does the current Council limit the right to referendum to those demon reformers who can collect 500 names on a petition? By what right does it limit the powers of proposing and ratifying amendments to its own membership? Merely because 17 members of a Student Council guessed that these provisos were equitable ten years ago? Even then they were not convinced. Reports claim that these back-room sessions were "smoke-filled and heated." But while the document lay on a table in Phillips Brooks House for thirty days, waiting for someone to raise an objection (which would have...
...Harvard. But this law-making by conjure has achieved just the reverse. Ten years later this product of an elite father and an indifferent mother finds itself in greater disrepute than its' pre-1936, constitution-less predecessor. Ten years of lopsided representation, of murky and hazy financial activity, of membership practices that smack of Sigma Chi and the Whiffenpoofs, have neutralized the Council's sincere efforts at constructive leadership. Ten years in which nearly 50 percent of all members got their start through appointment to one of the unelected Freshman Committees and, with this initial advantage, proceeded through four years...