Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gaitskell replied to the delight of the audience, "I haven't had much experience with clubs outside of the House of Commons." He went on to say that his fundamental premise in discussing ther U.N. was that "university of membership" should be the proper goal
This is not to say, however, that the Council always gives way under pressure. Its membership in the National Student Association, which takes a substantial mouthful of the Council's budget, has been repeatedly questioned. Each time the Council has reaffirmed its position: Harvard participation in an active fashion can have a beneficial effect on NSA. However accurate this position may have been several years ago, when Harvard was initiating and organizing NSA's entire international division, it is certainly open to question at present, when Harvard fails to participate in an active fashion. To be sure, financial participation...
...conditioned, an air-conditioned card room, and the valet service. In addition, the halls are lined with bureaus which can be rented by out-of-town members for the storage of clean clothes. The fifth floor has another 31 bedrooms for out-of-towners, who number over half the membership of the Club...
...Club has grown tremendously. By the turn of the century, there were 1,410 members; by the First World War, 4,589; and at the heighth of the depression in 1931, 6,444. Since then, this number has fluctuated little except during the War, but the character of the membership has switched. Whereas more than two-thirds of the members in 1900 were residents of the City, more than half today...
...times a year. Section eight of by-law ten provides that "The procedings of the Committee shall be secret and confidential." A majority vote is necessary for election, but only two votes are needed to reject a candidate. A quorum is seven members. In addition to the qualifications for membership, a candidate must be proposed by a Club member, and seconded by another. He must also be known to three members of the Admissions Committee, two of whom must be present when his name is considered...