Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candidate for board membership soon finds that everyone in the College has an opinion about the newspaper he hopes to join. And nobody ever hesitates to give it. By the end of his completion, and after talking to faculty, students, and townspeople, the candidate usually decides that most people are inclined toward the official's view. They like the CRIMSON, but always with some reservations. Completely overcoming these reservations is impossible; attempting to overcome them is the challenge of the paper...
...loyalty in the battle line are quite different from the atmosphere of good feeling created by drinking beer form the same keg. One results from enduring the same ordeals; the other from a chemical loosening of the tongue. Even if the Navy's social theory were correct, compulsory Taffrail membership could hardly boost the Unit's fraternal point score: in years past Taffrail has boasted better than ninety percent membership. With this large percentage of voluntary membership. With this large percentage of voluntary membership, pushing a few apathetic members into the club could only have an adverse effect on esprit...
...free choice of one's associates has long characterized Harvard's educational system, but the NROTC, by compelling membership in Taffrail is rejecting this principle. Any action that will tend to make the University a second-string Annapolis would violate the good faith prevalent in University-ROTC relations, and could not magically add to the intangible qualities of a good officer...
...more I thing about this, the more it seems to me an unsound practice. 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. Committees I am willing to accept. Subcommittees of one give me pause...
Disscussing the ex-Communist teacher who invokes the Fifth amendment, Griswold said, "Putting aside the question of his wisdom in doing this, can there be any doubt that the claim (of the privilege) is legally proper? Past membership in the Communist Party is not a crime in itself; but admitting such membership may well be a link in a chain of proof of a criminal charge against him... thus. an answer to the question will delicately incriminate him, that is, provide evidence which could be used in a prosecution against...