Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topic which was beaten to death in University Hall last year is showing new and encouraging signs of life. This year a student committee is attempting to keep alive a proposal to allow full Radcliffe membership in Harvard extracurricular organizations...
There are four major questions which the committee seems to view as barriers to changing the membership ruling. Should organizations with Radcliffe members be forced to adopt a title containing both the words Harvard and Radcliffe? There is no reason for existing Harvard organizations, when admitting girls to full membership, to change their names to the Harvard-Radcliffe Advocate, WHRRB, or indeed, the Harvard-Radcliffe CRIMSON. Few 'Cliffites are concerned about the names and it would be unfortunate if the Annex Administration insisted on putting this stumbling block in the way of a worthwhile proposal. We can assume, however, that...
...student and administrative committees considering joint membership are sincerely in favor of the proposal, as they claim to be, they will realize that the first two problems can be dismissed as no problems at all, and that the third and fourth can be resolved by a few simple administrative adjustments...
...boards offer membership in an organization doing a worthwhile job, where you can daily bask in the results of your efforts. The CRIMSON offers challenge enough to produce people like James Bryant Conant '14 and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, both presidents of the CRIMSON, who went on to become presidents of other worthwhile organizations. But one can also relax at the CRIMSON'S social functions...
...Congress, Senate Minority Leader William F. Knowland, 49, stepped into an F-100F Super Sabre jet at Los Angeles International Airport for an invigorating supersonic flight, whizzed along over the Southern California desert at more than 1,000 m.p.h. to break the sound barrier, smilingly received a certificate of membership in the exclusive "Mach Buster's Club." Scheduled for this week: a Sacramento press conference at which every Californian from Governor Goodwin Knight to MGM's Leo the Lion expects him to announce his candidacy for governor...