Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life was not all gaiety. Broken strings, lack of necessary instruments, no permanent rehearsal room were problems that continually nagged the Sodality. Pierian pertinacity, however, eventually overcame these predicaments. Almost more important and certainly harder to solve were the Pierian's treasury and membership roster, both of which fluctuated greatly. In 1818 the treasurer reported that the treasury contained $0.00, but presumably this situation was only temporary, because soon after they agreed that "brandy is an excellent ingredient for precipating harmonious sounds...
...membership question was not so easily disposed of. Complaints in 1832 about the Sodality's serenading led the University to ask the four members to resign, but Henry Gassett '34, the flute player, refused. For two years he met with himself, wrote up the minutes, played to himself, paid dues, and probably drank with himself. His Pierian spirit gradually attracted other musicians so that they were strong enough to found the Glee Club in 1834, and to play for a Porcellian Club entertainment...
...organization in the University has a parallel arrangement for administration and membership. The players in the orchestra fall into three catagories: Harvard men who are members of the Sodality, Cantabrigians interested in orchestral music who play a vital but scarce instrument like the viola, and Radcliffe girls who are members of the Radcliffe Orchestra...
...report--written by a special committee of five--recommended in particular that membership be made up of three members from each House, including one elected from the Sophomore class, one from the Junior class, and one appointed by the Master. It also proposed that there be three Radcliffe members, three Radcliffe members, three Freshman representatives, and three men who may be elected by a two-thirds vote of the Council...
Appointment of a member by each Housemaster, originally advocated in a CRIMSON editorial, was designed by the committee as a potential "item of prestige." The report emphasized the likelihood that students of "popularly unrecognized talent" might thus achieve membership. Appointed members would be ineligible for Council offices...