YALE ALUMNI WEEKLY STRONGER STAND AT PRINCETON. The Main Points in Eligibility Rules There. (Correspondence ot Yale Weekly.) Princeton, N. J., Jan. 30.—The eligi- bility rules at Princeton have not been | jrinted nor reduced to a systematic form. This has not been done be- cause they have for some time past and are still to a certain extent under advisement over some point on which there is likely to be a change. There- fore a complete and exact statement of the rules as they exist would not be possible nor would itbe advisable as it might give a statement of some parts which will not be in existence a few months hence or might omit some rules which are likely to be passed be- fore lone. It is possible, however, to give the main characteristics of the rules now in existence which are in addition to the regular amateur rules which gov- ern college athletics as follows: 1. A student coming from another college cannot represent the Univer- sity in championship games until he has pursued a course occupying not less than a year. 2. A special student, by this is meant a Student not a candidate for a degree, cannot play in any of the champion- ship games until a year after entrance. 3. A student forfeits the privilege of representing the College in athletic contests in case he play, either in term time or in vacation, in games at which gate money is taken, as a rep- resentative of any other organization. 4, No student under conditions is al- lowed to engage in championship games. A lightly conditioned student is allowed to play in practice games but before he can represent the col- lege in championship games every condition must be removed at the time of the above mentioned game. 5. A dropped student shall not be eligible to play on any athletic team for one year after the time he has been dropped. It must be remembered that the above is not an exact statement of the Princeton eligibility rules but simply their main features. The last men- tioned has been passed recently and there is every reason to believe that there will be some other additions be-_ fore the close of the present college year. The committee at Princeton take a stand for a more complete supervision of athletics and a greater subordina- tion to the curriculum duties. The general feeling at Princeton is for a common agreement among the large universities especially Harvard, Yale and Princeton governing the eligibility rules in regard to class standing as well as in regard to the amateur question. Graduate’s Club Nominations for Officers. The Graduates Club of New Haven, will hold its annual meeting at the ciub house on Chapel street on Tues- day evening, Fe>ruary 9th, to elect officers for the ensuing year. The nominating committee, consisting of Henry B. Sergent, ’718S., (chairman), Dr. Newman Smyth, Bowdoin, ’63; Thomas Hooker, ’69; William J. Com- stock, ’79S., and Samuel H. Fisher, ’89, have posted the following nomina- tions: For president, Prof. Theodore S. Woolsey, ’72; for first vice-president, Rev. Edwin Stevens Lines, ’72; for second vice-president, Prof. Bernadotte Perrin, ’69; for the governing board, Dr. Newman Smyth, Bowdoin, ’63; George D. Seymour, Columbian Uni- versity, *86; Leonard M. Daggett, ’84, and Harry G. Day, ’90S.; for commit- tee on admissions, Burton Mansfield, "15,8S., Prof. Louis’ V:-Pirrson, °82S., Prof. Gustav F. Gruener, ’84, Lewis Sheldon Welch ‘89 Those whose terms of office expire this year are: president, Prof. Thomas R. Lounsbury, ’59; first vice-president, Rev. T. T. Munger, ’51; second vice- president, Prof. T. S. Woolsey, ’72: governing board, John K. Beach, ’%7: George D. Seymour, Columbian Uni- versity, °8); Herbert A. Smith, ’89, and Eli Whitney, Jr., ’69; committee on admissions, Bernadotte Perrin, ’69, Francis G. Beach, ’83, Samuel H. Fisher, ’89, and Rev. E. S. Lines, ’72. ———_>>—___——_ J. W. Cross, 1900,0f New York City, has been appointed temporary cap- tain of the Freshman crew in place of J. P. Brock, who is now rowing with the University squad. Essex County Alumni Dine, The thirteenth annual meeting of the Yale Alumni Association of Essex County, New Jersey, was held at Davis’s restaurant, Orange, N. J., on Friday evening, January 29, 1897. The meeting was well attended by mem- bers residing in the Oranges, although there were not many from Newark or Morristown. This Association holds occasional informal meetings during the year for the cultivation of the Yale spirit and good-fellowship among its members, and the annual meeting par- takes of the same character. The report of the nominating com- mittee was accepted and the following © officers. were unanimously elected: President, Dickinson W. Richards, ’80; members of the executive committee, Class of 1901, David A. Kennedy, ’74 and Arthur E. Bostwick, ’81; nominat- ing committee 1898, George M. Gill, ’88, Wilfred /E. Eaton, °’85, Richard S. Storrs, ’°85. President Richards made a few remarks thanking the Associa- tion for the honor of a re-election and requesting its continued co-operation. Mr. Malcolm MacLear, ’91, reported that a Yale association had been formed in Newark. It was not intended that this should in any way interfere with the County Association, but it was hoped that it ~would increase the zeal of the Yale men in Newark who did not find it easy to attend the meetings in Orange. Yale men in should be “as lights set in a dark place,’ almost wholly given over to Princeton influence. The meetings of the two associations would be held in such a way as not to conflict; the members of one should be “ipso facto,’ members of the other, and the Newark Association would turn out in force at the annual banquet held under the auspices of the County As- sociation and make the occasion even more successful than these dinners have been wont to be. It was voted that the executive committee be au- thorized to take such steps as it should deem expedient to further the objects of the new organization. After the business had been trans- acted the Association sat down to an admirably served chafing dish supper consisting of raw oysters, chowder, lobster a la Newburg, chicken a la terrapin, celery salad, welsh rarebit, cheese, ice cream, and coffee. At the close of the spread the presi- dent called upon Dr. Thomas W. Har- vey, Princeton ’73, for some remarks. Dr. Harvey spoke at some length of Princeton’s debt to Yale who had fur- nished the original impetus to the formation of acollegein New Jersey— a number of presidents and trustees, He expressed the hope that soon an ar- rangement might be brought about hy which all athletic contests might take place at the grounds of the uni- versities instead of making a hippo- drome show of our athletes in New York. He made an earnest plea for banishing the slightest taint of pro- fessionalism from college athletics. Mr. Henry B. Closson, Dartmouth, 79, spoke of the still greater debt that his alma mater owed to Yale than Princeton had done. He dwelt -upon the statements made _ recently that Yale and Dartmouth are no longer colleges for poor men. The spirit of these institutions had not changed; even if more money was required than was formerly necessary to go through ecllege, and more was spent than for- merly upon comfort, it was not more than should be expected from the growth of wealth in New England. Mr. Charles A. Mead, ’84, gave some account of the scene at Henley last summer when Yale made her plucky fight and told of the hearty cheers which came to the defeated crew. Ac- cording to custom, the shade of St. Klihu was invoked with songs and jests until a late hour, and it was the unanimous vote of those present that informal re-unions were a great suc- cess. ++ Second Banjo Club. The following men will compose the Second Banjo Club for this year: ‘Banjeaurines—G. S. bag She 99, leader; Eliot Watrous, ‘99, R. S. Hume, Big. B. Wilcox, ’98, P. §. Potter, 799, EX. P. Camp- bell, "98S, Banjos—M. W. Dodge, ’°99, R. F. Grant, °99S., P. N. Welch, Jr.; ’98. Piccolos—B. A, McCullagh, OOS. de W. Blumenthall, 1900. Guitars—RE. Q. 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