Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in 76 years, Yale's undergraduate Daily News decided not to print the names of the 90 juniors tapped for membership by the six top-prestige campus secret societies last week. The radio station, WYBC, also kept mum. Explained News Chairman Roger L. Stone, himself a junior: the news blackout was motivated by a "reorientation in values and a hope for lessening the prestige factor on campus...
Robert H. Mundheim '54, outgoing vice-president, announced the winners of the elections at the annual P.B.H. full membership dinner. Other speakers included William G. Saltonstall '28, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; Neil D. Hastie '52, the House's graduate secretary; and William R. Crawford '54, this year's president...
Hastie, reviewing the P.B.H. activities, noted that membership this year rose to more than 370. With an additional 400 serving as associates, the House has become the University's largest student organization...
Then, in June, 1952, 18 months after application, Polyani was turned down flat, because, the consul said, of "certain political beliefs or activities; and membership in, or affiliation with, certain organizations." And the McCarran-Walter act gave Polyani no right to appeal from this decision...
Three dailies were sold, and three folded as expenses far outran income. Last year at the annual I.T.U. convention, over Randolph's objections, the membership voted to limit borrowing for the papers from the union's pension and mortuary funds to $1,000,000 (it had already borrowed an estimated $2.5 million). Last week, getting ready for this year's convention, Randolph took drastic action to head off another stormy fight over the papers...