Word: membership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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tors automatically won. But opposition leaders immediately said that they would challenge some discrepancies in the Coop membership lists. They pointed out that Coop lists showed 700 more undergraduate members than were actually registered at Harvard and charged that similar membership swelling had occurred elsewhere...
November 1: The Coop's stockholders, saying they were "distressed" by charges of swollen membership lists and election irregularities, voted to form a special committee that would study the whole system of electing Coop Directors...
...nominees go unchallenged, saying that "management requires both continuity and experience." Leaders of the new group also started a campaign to get students and Faculty to attend the election meeting, since the regular slate would be automatically elected unless 5 per cent (about 1500 people) of the Coop's membership came to the meeting...
...There are no restrictions on Corporation membership, except that new appointment must win consent from the Board of Overseers. The 1650 Charter states that the Corporation has "perpetual succession," so its members fill any vacancies themselves. It could choose anyone--students, faculty, Cambridge police--with consent of the Overseers, though traditionally it selects only Harvard College graduates (with the current exception of William L. Marbury, whose only Harvard degree is from the Law School...
...members and electors of the Board of Overseers. Current law provides that "no member of the Corporation, and no officer of government or instruction in Harvard College, shall be eligible as a noverseer, or entitled to vote in the election of overseers." There are no other restrictions on membership, but the franchise is granted only to Harvard degree-holders...