Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While spring is the main season for rugby, last autumn's team had a floating membership of about 40 players, of which only five were freshmen chasing after the ever-elusive P. T. credit. Besides Captain Rob Albert, Terry Turner, al Ellis, Jorg Hardoy, and Martin Lindsay, all players with experience ranging up to Harrods's 13 years of play in Argentina assisted with the coaching...
...agent Charley Loftus has switched his emphasis from the Yale medical room and its injury lists to the Eli Indoor gymnasium. Yale publicity is Loftus' job, and he does it well, but perhaps he does it too with an digressiveness and completeness which at times belies his college's membership in the newly formed Ivy League...
...poll of last week, however, showed another definite shift in the commuter's feeling. Over 20 percent now favor non-resident house membership, 40 percent a new Center, and 37 percent prefer remodeling and improving Dudley. An interesting discovery was what the idea of a "Dudley spirit" does not firmly establish itself until the commuter's senior year...
...feels slighted. Once it was impossible to compare Dudley with any of the houses; now the commuter tends to exaggerate the slowly closing gap between the two. As a result, conditions seem worse and the effect is often depressing. The solution seems theoretically simple to those advocating non-resident membership with the houses. If the commuter is given connection with a house, then the problem of letting him "rub elbows with undergraduates from all sections of the country" is presumably resolved. As Dean Bender said, "It is basically unsound to isolate a group on an economic or geographic basic."5The...
...substitute for integration, gradual improvements were added to Dudley's facilities. Despite the additions, there has been a steady decline in the total number of commuters. The attraction of the Houses has drawn many men away from Dudley as soon as they could afford the price of House membership. Added to the loss of men has been a concurrent drop in Dudley's scholastic average...