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The matter of dues was then brought up. Professor Coolidge as chairman of the sub-committee on dues read the majority and minority reports of the committee. After a very lengthy discussion the majority report was adopted. It is in substance as follows:
The Harvard Union has, therefore, to raise $25,000 a year. It does not seem safe to count on a membership for the first year of more than 2500 undergraduates. The Harvard Union must be self-supporting. It is evident therefore that we must be able to get ten dollars...
In regard to life membership, the committee wish to recommend: First, that the dues of graduates (and officers of instruction and government) as life members be fixed at fifty dollars; those of students, at seventy-five dollars. It is to be remembered that the great majority of the graduate life...
Now, it is the essential purpose of the Harvard Union to afford a social opportunity within the reach of all Harvard men. This has been the authorized statement from the very start, and if it means anything less than this, a vast amount of beautiful talk has been worse than...
Viewed from this standpoint, a yearly fee of $10.00 is unjustifiably large. Houston Hall is said to be the best example of this sort of a club in this country. The annual dues there are $2.50. Possibly circumstances may be enough different with us to warrant a charge of $5.00...