Word: membership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College administration, too, feels that RUS is opening up unexplored lines of communication between students and the College staff. Non-voting student membership on administrative committees is relatively new and untried...
Inefficient Omission. Unfortunately for Campbell's dream, the Disciples evolved into just another sect, with a more-or-less Congregational theology and structure that united a number of like-minded churches in a voluntary association. But as the Disciples grew in numbers (membership is now about 1,250,000) and expanded their activities, they found it difficult to get along without some kind of central authority. Today the churches operate 117 autonomous missionary and social agencies and 23 colleges, all of which are supported by voluntary contributions. Leaders of the Disciples have long deplored the lack of a policy...
First proposed in 1958, the reorganization plan allows the local congregations considerable autonomy. They will keep title to their property, retain the right to plan their own services, decide on membership requirements, hire their pastors. Central policy, however, will be decided by a new general assembly composed of 5,000 delegates elected by the congregations, which is expected to meet every two years, and a 400-member general board. A new general minister and president" and a 47-member administrative committee will carry out the decisions of the assembly and board...
...take a more decisive part in the Consultation on Church Union, the ambitious ecumenical venture that is seeking to merge nine main-line denominations into a Protestant superchurch. The Disciples have participated in C.O.C.U. since 1963, but now they will be able to get clearer decisions from the membership on unity issues...
...student political organizations at Harvard have not been required to submit membership lists to the Dean's office. There is a provision however for the Dean to demand that such a list be presented to him, should he deem it necessary