Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving at Harvard in 1920 as a Freshman, he immediately joined the Glee Club, which had just become a major College organization under Professor "Doc" Davison. After a few weeks, he flunked his quartet trials, then as now the deciding factor in Glee Club membership; so he decided he would be an accompanist with the club. Woody delights in telling how Davison suggested that he "go play the drums in the band." Nevertheless, he must have made a moderately good accompanist, for when he graduated in 1924 he became conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society and assistant conductor...
...party-liner and, everybody felt pretty sure, a party member. In his roar of rage, Sullivan confirmed these suspicions. He said he had joined the Communist Party two years after he began organizing the C.S.U. in 1935. He led C.S.U. in its first successful strike in 1938, built up membership to about 5,000 in Great Lakes, river and coastal ports...
Dubbed "Moscow on Charles" in the pre-war days when the gamut of political ideas was more freely tossed about, Leverett House recruited much of its present membership from the first waves of ex-G.I.'s to hit the College...
...Finklestein 1G, committee chairman, expressed the hope that this session would "serve to clear the air" somewhat in advance of the full floor discussion of the question at the general membership meeting tomorrow night...
...Lowell or Adams, but the House didn't regain its identity as a social institution until the reopening of Mather Hall a year ago. So now, politically speaking, Leverett is not notably conspicuous unless it is for the fact that its residents comprise almost a quarter of the membership of the Student Council...