Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Society's constitution states that the group is open to "Harvard and Radcliffe students interested in Biology," so the Council rejected it in accordance with existing rules prohibiting non-Harvard membership in official organizations...
After this action the reviser of the Council's "Rules," Frederic D. Houghteling '50, read a proposal advocating the prohibition of discriminatory membership clauses in undergraduate organizations...
...said the proposal was actually a plea for "honest labeling" of student groups. It would require that any organization which has discriminatory membership requirements in its constitutions must state that its purpose is to conduct activities which require such discrimination...
...recitals, and informal gatherings of plays and poetry, as well as round table discussions of problems related to the interpretation of the various cultures represented by the Center's stock of books, slides, records, reproductions, and realia. Both informal parties and special lectures are presented by the clubs, whose membership numbers anywhere form 15 to 60. Refreshments--beer for the German Club, wine or sherry for most of the others--follow their meetings. The Harvard Council of Foreign Language Clubs, including a representative from each group, makes suggestions as to what types of meetings should be held. This program...
Concentrators in the Romance Languages naturally form a large percentage of the membership of these clubs, but membership is by no means limited to undergraduates. One of the Widener doormen happened to have lived in Brazil for a while and now he and his wife regularly attend meetings of the Brazilian Club. Foreign students make up a small percentage of the clubs. They stimulate conversation when the tendency is to lapse back into English but they presumably come to this country to learn about cultures other than their own. For this reason, the Center makes no effort to keep them...