Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even those who have maintained membership on a CRIMSON board throughout their undergraduate years agree that their six to eight weeks as candidates were among the most valuable they spent in Cambridge. After-dinner pool upstairs in the Union or demi-taste in the House common room may have to be dropped for the duration of this intensive training period, but academic work need not suffer...
Harvard University, "because it is a great educational institution, was singled out by the Party as a prime target for infiltration," explained Philbrick, who called this a "back-handed compliment." But the speaker cautioned at some length against condemning a man just because of past membership in a front organization. "There was once a man named Senator McCarthy," he remarked, "for whom there were only good guys and bad guys, and this was a very bad mistake...
...increase the attractiveness of club membership, he advocated another series of workshops, "conducted by professionals or top Boston drama instructors," that would be restricted to members...
...first time in U.S. history, Congress has more Roman Catholics in its membership than any other religious group. A tabulation released by the Library of Congress listed 103 Roman Catholic Congressmen (91 in the House and twelve in the Senate), of whom 88 are Democrats and 15 Republicans. This represents an increase of eight over the 95 Catholics in the last Congress...
...club Bicker committees will meet throughout the ten-day period, paring down their lists of prospective members, and will issue two types of bids early this week. A first-line bid entitles the sophomore to membership if he chooses to sign up; a second-line bid in effect puts him on a waiting list until those with first-line bids have either withdrawn or joined...