Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems related to girls in Harvard groups had already been presented at the meeting. 1) Rules now in effect prohibit all outside membership in recognized Harvard groups, so the request of the Harvard Biology Society for official recognition was turned down on the grounds that its constitution says it is open "to Harvard and Radcliffe students." 2) Dean Bender had requested the Council to take part in an investigation of a requested by the CRIMSON for permission to have more Radcliffe correspondents...
...testified that he personally took up Bridges' party membership cards on two occasions and issued him new ones; he often saw Bridges pay party dues. He told of meetings between Bridges and party officials, and testified that the Communists were in complete control of the bloody 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, with Bridges taking orders from Sam Darcy, California Communist boss at the time...
Playwright-Author Robert E. Sherwood (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Roosevelt and Hopkins') was the only new member elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, whose membership is limited to 50. He filled the spot vacated by the death of Historian James Truslow Adams (Founding of New England, The Living Jefferson...
...York was not the only state with a law designed to bar subversive teachers from public schools, but it had one of the newest and toughest. The Feinberg law (TIME, April 11) empowered schools to dismiss teachers because of membership in any organization that the state Board of Regents had listed as "subversive." When the legislature passed the act last spring, cries of alarm rose from civic groups and teachers' unions as well as from the Communists who were its main target...
...Since a group is not genuinely a Harvard group unless a majority of its students are Harvard men, over 50 percent Harvard membership should be required, to entitle the group to use of the Harvard name...