Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised will pay the expenses of ten students who will represent the Harvard chapter at the Chicago conference this summer. With a current membership of 783, the unit is one of the largest in the country, and hopes to send a representative delegation. Lacking funds at present, the chapter's finance committee under the direction of William E. Nelson 2G is depending on the drive for its entire conference expenses...
Unique among College organizations in its life-long membership provisions, the band is complemented during the football season by some graduates who have been marching onto Soldiers Field for as long as 15 years. The lure of "Wintergreen" and a free ticket to the Stadium bring back alumni year after year...
...anti-discriminatory device upon the good intention of the club management to observe the spirit of the agreement. For within the actual wording of the document there are abundant loopholes which will allow the Club 100 to continue its policy of operating ostensibly as a private club with restricted membership but actually admitting anyone of Caucasion descent...
...objective of the University wide committee, which for the past few weeks has employed pickets, pamphlets, and publicity to bring pressure on the club, was to induce the operators of the club, actually to run it as a private organization (which would have every right to select its own membership on any basis it might choose) or, if the club is to remain a semi-public establishment to open its facilities to all comers...
Yesterday's agreement includes the management's assertion that the club's by-laws do not preclude members because of race, creed, or color. This is a bare statement of fact. The management, if it wishes, can still, continue to refuse membership to colored persons. And the stipulation that guests of members will not be barred because of color smacks heavily of a condescension. Taken in its worst interpretation it could mean that colored persons are acceptable when accompanied by someone who will be responsible for their conduct...