Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late 19303 the club sounded one of the first alarms against shipment of U.S. scrap iron to Japan; in 1938 it dramatically began picketing Japanese ships loading scrap on the Seattle waterfront. Recalls Harley: "The staid gentlemen in our membership walked side by side with left-wing fringe groups who happened to be taking the same position at the time...
...newspaper which disagrees with an ideology must attack it by throwing unfounded charges upon its campus representatives, using cheap and underhanded tactics to vilify those representatives. Your editorial comment against Mr. Thomson was such an attack. By traducing the duly elected officers of the HYRC, you have attacked the membership itself, which has expressed confidence in these officers...
Charles B. Smith '58, president of the Harvard World Federalists, said that he would urge his membership to attend and "to cheer for any speaker who expressed world federalist views." He felt that Sohn, co-author of a new book on disarmament and United Nations Charter revision, "would express our views...
Although the Democrats seem to contradict the general political scene with their rise in membership during non-election years, the HYDC has had the usual problem of a student apathy to overcome. Membership figures give little indication of the number of participants. Last Wednesday, for instance, less than one-fifth of the members attended an important HYDC election meeting...
...action in 1952 was the HYDC, whose president, Stan Tobin, had worked long and hard in the summer planning for the campaign. He had police type maps of every precinct of Cambridge, and developed a system of methodically covering as much of the area as possible. Despite its small membership, the HYDC attracted the greatest number of workers during the autumn months...