Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which the Union is at present. The University furnishes class rooms, libraries, museums, and laboratories, and these are paid for by students in the tuition fee. If the social side of a man's college life has been estimated as being worth half, it seems reasonable that undergraduates should support the Union, the only institution which stands solely for the centralization of class and college activities as a whole. Of course there are many smaller institutions of a social nature in one of which almost everyone belongs where greater intimacy can be developed. But the Union is the only place...
...present situation of the Union was found to be unjust and intolerable for those who belonged and consequently supported it. The Union's income is derived entirely from membership fees and from any profit that there may be from the restaurant and from the sale of cigars and magazines, etc. Yet every year numerous public functions are held in the Union, such as class smokers, dinners, mass meetings, faculty receptions and dances, and lectures of one kind and another. In the case of undergraduate affairs, it has been estimated that in the last five years, only 55 per cent...
Since the injustice to the men who are required to support the Union is so great, a radical change will have to be made in conducting the activities of the Union in the future unless some form of universal support is adopted. Hence, it is not out of place to consider the alternative. It was the consensus of opinion at the hearing that the added expense to classes from the rent of halls for class smokers, dinners, dances and mass meetings if the Union were not at their disposal, would average five or six dollars per man if the expenses...
...those of the Harvard Union. The Agassiz House in Radcliffe College does not furnish nearly as many attractions as does the Harvard Union, yet compulsory membership is in operation there. It is also to be remembered that in many colleges everyone is taxed an Athletic Association fee for the support of athletics...
...question of the effect of the proposed system for universal support of the Union on those men going through