Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informal concerts by members of the group. Appearing frequently on the programs at this time was the name of Edward Balantine '07, later a professor in the Music Department and a well-known composer and planist. The year 1917-18 brought the famous choral composer, Randall Thompson '20, to membership in the Club...
...this year that the Sodality found itself with a staggering membership of one--Mr. Henry Gasset. Gasset, reluctant to go down in history as the last of the tribe, elected himself President of the organization, appointed himself as all the other officers, kept minutes of all his meetings with himself, rehearsed with himself with himself as the official conductor, and after his rehearsing, toasted himself with liquor bought with the dues which he paid to himself...
During the Civil War, Sodality membership shrunk, but it was not until 1875 that the organization again came close to the rocks, and this time, the Faculty was the villain. In that year, a resolution was passed by the Faculty prohibiting Pierian from giving any concerts for money. Revenue from concerts has always been an important and necessary part of Pierian's financial set-up, as, like all other Harvard organizations, it has never received any money from the University...
...A.C.P.'s membership includes doctors who specialize in internal medicine and allied fields, but not surgeons; the American Medical Association, no rival, and the A.C.P. cooperate to sponsor the specialty board in internal medicine...
There is no Red ban in AVC, but the prevailing moderate liberal political temper and membership of the organization is such as to discourage them from joining and keep them in the background when they come in. AVC is a supporter of action through the U.N., a strong Marhall Plan supporter, and domestically, a backer of such measures as the Taft-Eilender-Wagner housing program and the recent subsistence pay raise for vets. On the negative side, they have opposed a Federal bonus and the Taft-Hartley labor bill...