Word: memberships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus last week was born a new Chris tian denomination. Product of the largest merger, in terms of total numbers involved, in the entire history of American Protestantism, the new body has a combined membership of slightly more than 11 million (10.3 million Methodists and 745,000 United Brethren). It thus becomes the U.S.'s second largest Protestant body, outnumbered only by the Southern Baptist Convention...
...twenty places and where a good letter of recommendation from a faculty member can be the difference between two students lumped at the middle of the class, there are few students who would not welcome the chance to fraternize with faculty on a regular basis. This "competitive advantage' of membership is accentuated when other students are considered, and rejected, by both students and faculty...
...above and beyond the competition point is the fact that faculty contact is one of the rare excitements at the Law School, and faculty time is at a premium. To secretly institutionalize informal social contact between students and faculty, and to bestow membership on those students whose gentility will no doubt' profit them, in time, outside the ivory tower, is to taint the ivory tower with a bit too much of the real world...
...Council membership is not "necessary." Trustees said that the students could effectively influence college government by participating in administrative subcommittees. A Trustee's suggestion that "student sentiment was accurately represented on the Council by Mrs. Bunting and Dean Elliott" was greeted with hoots and hisses...
...Student membership on the council would restrict the Council's "freedom of discussion" and would put unnecessary responsibilities on the students. Thaddeus R. Beal, a Council member, said that "we are excited that you are interested, but there are some things you are too young...