Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often hold true after a morning of classes when most members prefer to relax rather than to emanate or to absorb culture. Signet is used more as a pleasant eating club than as an intellectual society by many people who go there. Today, a large percentage of its membership belongs to final clubs, and a number of the rest appears to desire entrance; as a result, there is a strong tendency to mold Signet club...
...preamble to Signet's constitution states one further purpose for the Society, that election to membership be a recognition of merit. One of the founders expressed his hope that people would be elected on the basis of real ability rather than because of "good fellowship," and that Signet would not adopt the false standard of admission originally criticized in other clubs...
...Caucasian immigrant of an earlier day, a Negro can scarcely ever hope, even in the North, that the white society will really accept him on his human merits. Negroes are more prone than whites to break the laws, rules and customs of society because they are excluded from full membership in it. In gross and subtle ways, from unwritten bans on employing Negroes to the faintly patronizing tone that even liberal-hearted whites take toward them, Negroes are made to feel alien and inferior. This pervasive discrimination holds down capable Negroes at the top of the social ladder, dims their...
...yearbook elected Cornelia Mack '59 to the Photography Board, while members of the old Radcliffe Year-book staff have received provisional membership, and several girls are now competing for full membership...
...Radcliffe girls have been elected to full membership on the staff of Harvard Yearbook Publications, the organization announced yesterday. One, Pamela Forbes '60, will become chairman of the Art and Layout Board, the first girl to hold an executive position on a Harvard publication...