Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partial but growing success of the Center's athletics has prompted a few administrators to suggest that it is the key to integration. "Let them play o the house teams," one Dean said, "and they will find out the advantages of the non-resident house membership." At present, however, such a move would probably divide the feeling of unity that encourages the commuters to allot the extra time for sports. "I like the idea of teaming it up with guys who live home like I do," a starter on the hockey squad said. "In a house, win or lose...
Whitlock had wiped the dust off Dudley's hidden potential, ad the commuter responded by unleashing his feeling of independence and spirit. A vote taken by the Student Council in the Spring of '53 revealed that 223 students preferred membership in the Commuter's Center as opposed to the seven who wanted non-resident membership in the house system. And only three selected a renovated Dudley over the choice of an entirely new center...
Yale's provisions for class-skipping differ from the University's special Standing Program, which admits qualified 11th graders as freshmen or high school seniors into the sophomore class with House membership...
Church building is booming, and membership is soaring. But, warned the report: "Our crime rate appears to rise alongside our membership increase . . . We can all remember when the major challenge to the tavern came from the Protestant churches. Today the challenge is from television...
Probably McCarthy's most flagrant abuse was his practice of holding one-man hearings, sitting himself almost as a judge and jury. As Dean Griswold said in his address to the Massachusetts Bar Association last winter, "There is nothing about the nature of membership in the Senate or the House of Representatives which should give each member a general commission to go through the length and breadth of the land, far from his own state or district, far from the seat of the general government, even on formal delegation to him from his House or one of its committees...