Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University yesterday appointed a prominent Boston banker as Treasurer of Harvard College, a post which also entails voting membership on the governing Corporation...
...during the McCarthy period the Corporation turned strongly anti-Communist. They once issued a statement which read in part, "In the absence of extraordinary circumstances, we would regard present membership in the Communist Party by a member of our faculty as grave misconduct justifying removal...
...investor shareholder responsibility--does the Corporation receive much public notice. The public sees little of the day-to-day workings of the Corporation, the meetings, reports, budgets, and deliberation which make up most of their chores. The Crimson begins a three-part series which will examine the Corporation, its membership, its history, and how it functions: a complete analysis of the seven men who make up what has been called "the oldest self-perpetuating body in the Western Hemisphere...
...affiliate--the drama club, political groups. The Crimson, Friend of member--the Outing Club. House musical and theatrical groups No women--the Lampoon, the private clubs, and, I believe, the Advocate, which, however, would publish Radcliffe writing. There was a ruckus my sophomore year over admitting girls to full-membership in the Dramatic Club Full membership was turned down (the movement was led by boys and girls), despite the talented and committed group of girls in the productions. We had very high standards and were critical of slip-shod effort...
Once proud and powerful, American unions now seem hounded on all sides. Denounced as featherbedding outfits that help jack up prices, they have seen both their membership and their bargaining clout dwindle. Now, in What Do Unions Do? (Basic Books; 293 pages; $22.95) Harvard Economists Richard Freeman and James Medoff have come not to bury unions but to praise them. Their key finding: unions are good for society as a whole but bad for individual companies...