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fare td a 2 ae Ws : YALE ALUM \ EP oc 5 “a a q oe oad € NI WEEKLY ELIGIBILITY RULES, Restrictions of Athletes at Harvard and Vale, Now in Effect. The following rules are adopted by the University Boat Club regarding the eligibility of Yale oarsmen. The same restrictions are enforced by th2 Football, Track, Athletic and Base- ball Associations: I. No professional athlete, nor any athlete who has ever received any pe- cuniary profit by reason of his con- nection with athletics, shall take part in any contest of any Yale crew. II. No man shall be eligible for a Yale crew who is not a candidate for a de- gree in a course requiring at least two years’ residence and attendance upon not less than eight hours of recitations or lectures per week. III. No man shall be eligible for a Yale crew who, if not a Freshman in the Academic or Scientific Depart- ments, has not been in attendance one full academic year at the University. IV. No man who has been dropped from his class for neglect of studies shall be eligible for a Yale crew until a full calendar year from the time of his being dropped or until he be re-ad- mitted to the class from which he was dropped. V. No student shall take part in any contest of a Yale team in any one branch of athletics for more than four years. The year or years during which any man shall have represented upon any of its teams any other college shal) be reckoned as if he had been a mem- ber of a Yale team for this period. THE YALE FACULTY RULE. In addition the Yale Academic and Scientific Faculties have adopted reg- ulations which affect the eligibility of athletes at Yale. The Academic rules arte: No student is allowed to represent his Class or the College in any athletic or musical organization, as _ Officer, member or substitute, if he is under discipline for irregularity of attend- ance or conduct, or under warning of low standing, or if his average mark for the previous term (or half-term if that be the first half of the second term) was below 2.25. The same restriction applies during the Fall term to Freshmen having five entrance conditions. ce] The rules of the Scientific Faculty were adopted last Fall and go into effect this Spring for the first time: “No student will be allowed to act as officer or member of any athletic or musical organization or be connected with any college periodical: ‘1, If he is irregular in his attend- ance upon his prescribed duties. “9 If he is under official warning for low standing. “2 If he is under a condition which has not been made up. In the case of members of the Freshman Class, the entrance conditions debarring men from having a place on these organiza- tions will be determined by the class faculty. “4, If the standing of the student, in case he is a member of the Junior or Senior Class, be below average for the term or half-term preceding, in the general studies of the class, and be- low a certain higher grade, fixed by the class faculty, in the special studies of the particular course to which he belongs. In the case of members of the Freshman Class, the average mark of all their studies must not fall under 2.26.” These rules are practically the same as those now in application in the Aca-~ demic Department, except that the lat- ter do not cover the case of men who are connected with College periodicals. This is the first time that faculty re- strictions have been placed upon work for Yale College periodicals, although it has sometimes been considered quite as necessary as in the case of athletics. RULES OF ELIGIBILITY AT HARVARD. The rules of the Harvard Athletic Committee regarding the eligibility of members of the various athletic teams are as follows: Rule 1. No one shall be allowed to represent Harvard University in any public athletic contest, either indi- vidually or as a member of any’ team, unless he can satisfy the Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sports that he is, and intends to be throughout the College year, a bona fide member of the University, taking a full year’s work. Rule 2. No students on probation can take part in any public athletic contest. A student who is dropped for neglect of his studies into a lower class shall be debarred from taking LAG ANGSSRH Balt. cc. etice vee part in any intercollegiate contests until the end of the next Academic year, or until he produces a Faculty certificate that he has made up ail the deficiencies which stand in the way of his restoration to his original class. Rule 3. No one who is not a regular student in the College or Scientific School, and no regular student in eith- er of these departments who has ever played in any intercollegiate contest upon a class or University team of any other college, shall play upon a Har- vard team until he has resided one academic year at the University and passed the annual examinations upon a full year’s work. * \ Rule 4. No student shall be allowed to wepresent Harvard University in any public athletie contest, either in- dividually or aS a° member of any team, who, either before or since @n- tering the University, shall have en- gaged for money in any athletic com- petition, whether for & stake, or a money prize, or a Share of the en- trance fees or admission money; or who shall have taught or engaged in any athletic exercise or sport as a means of livelihood; or who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport” or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument.whatever, direct or indi- rect, with the single exception that he may have received from the College or- ganization, or from any permanent amateur association of which he was at the time a member, the amount by which the expenses necessarily in- curred by him in representing his or- ganization in athletic contests e-=- ceeded his ordinary expenses. Rule 5. No student, whether he ha; represented one or more colleges shal! take part in. intercollegiate contests for more than four years; and this period shall begin with the year in which as a player upon a University team he first represented any college. In reckoning the four years, the year of probation mentioned in Rule 8 shall be excluded, and also any year lost to a student by illness. » Si» P The Sixty-first ‘ Lit.” Banquet, The sixty-first annual banquet of the © Yale Literary Magazine will be held at’ the New Haven House on Monday, March 29. Covers will be laid for about fifty. A quartet from the Glee Club, consisting of W. J. Lapham, ’97; G. G: Schreiber, ’98; J. W. Wadsworth, ’98, and E. H. Brewer, ’978., will furnish music. The Harvard Monthly will be represented by Henry Wise Miller, and the Princeton Nassau Literary Maga- zine by Arthur Willis Leonard. At the head of the menu will be printed: “We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.’’ (Sydney Smyth). The toastmasters will be C, P. Kitchel, '97;-and F, Tilney 7 97, and the following toasts will be re- sponded to: The Outgoing Board..... C..P. Kitchel, ’9% ‘The end crowns all.’’ —Troileus and Cressida. The Incoming Board....... EK. A. Lord, ‘97 “Tis morning and my day has dawned.”’ —Prisoner of Zenda. St. Elihu...Professor T. R. Lounsbury, ’59 “Youth and age Of a piece throughout and all divine.’ —Dryden. The Harvard Monthly......... H. W. Miller “Oh, here’s to Johnny Harvard.’’ —Harvard Songs. he N : A. W. Leonard We’ll all unite to shout and sing Long life to old Nassau.’’ —Princeton Songs. MOAR MOONE, TIOGA oh ob doce cc oes vee vues can . waie son wae Professor W. L. Phelps, ’87 “No muse hath been so bold, Or of the latter or the old, Those elfish secrets to unfold.’’ —Drayton. The list of invited guests is as follows: Donald G. Mitchell, ’41, guest of honor; Henry A. Beers, ’69; Robert F. Tilney, Wig "92; Charlton M. Lewis, ’86; : Phelps,..’87;. H. A. Smith, 789: Ge we Wells, °96; H. W. Miller, Harvard ’97; A. W. Leonard, Princeton ’97; W. D. Makepeace, Ol; G. Le Parker, (Si ere Kimbley, ’97; R. L. Munger, ’97; A. F, Judd, ’97; G. Py. Day, 97: A. B: Kerr: "97; EX. T. Murphy, ’°97; G. Sumner, ’97; J. P.. Sawyer, °97; C. W. Beers, ’978.3 D. V. Sutphin, ’97; A. Wheeler, ’97; B. B. Kautimas. 97; C0... Clark, ’97¢ G I’. Neergaard, 97; E. T.. Ware, .’97;. R; McWilliams, ’97; G Van Steenwyck, jr., 97; H. S. Coffin, ’97; H. H. Towshend, 97; W. J. Lapham, ’97; E. H. Brewer, 978.; G._G. Schreiber, ’98, and J. W. Wadsworth, ’98. y we ™~< ~~ ey The Home Journal for March 17 con- tains a long history of the founding of Phi Beta Kappa, the first of the Amer- ican Greek letter societies, written by W. A. Curtis. NEW LONDON WANTS THE RACE. Letter trom Board of Trade—To be Decided Next Saturday. The New London Board of Trade have been making great efforts to have the - Yale-Harvard-Cornell, and the Cornell- Pennsylvania-Columbia races, together with the two Freshmay .races, rowed at New London this spring. The follow- ing letter has been sent by them to Mr, Bangs, chairman of the Cornell-Penn- sylvania-Columbia Rowing Committee, to Captain Goodrich, of the Harvard crew, and to the management of the Yale Navy : ‘On behalf of the citizens of New London we extend to the crews of Har- vard, Yale and Cornell an invitation to ‘row their forthcoming boat races on the -Thames River course, we offering on our part a four (4) mile course suitable for tour (4) or more crews, as per new survey as shown on enclosed map, prop- erly flagged and marked, and free from all obstructions on days of races, with suitable press boat for university races. We also offer free transportation for the University and Freshman crews, for their boats and launches, to and from New London, Harvard having perma- nent quarters erected, we will provide suitable quarters for the University and Freshman crews of Cornell and Yale. ‘‘ We will give to the contesting crews the sum of fifty (50) cents on each ticket sold for observation train on day of University race. We promise ample railroad and steamboat tacilities to and from all points on day of race, and will assist in every way to the welfare and enjoyment of the crews, and extend every inducement for the comfort and pieasure of visitors. ‘* Yours respectfully, ‘‘ EDMUND 8. NEILAN.” For the Regatta Committee, New Lon- don Board of Trade. It is estimated that the expenses of the crews at New London would be about $3,000. This has all been assumed by the Board of Trade, as it would be for floats, fares, rent of quarters and such items, and the crews would be called upon to pay for nothing but the real training: ‘The question of a place for the races will be decided at a meet- ing to be held Saturday evening, when representatives from Yale, Harvard, Cornell and the Poughkeepsie Board of Trade will be present. She meeting will be held at the Fifth Avenue hotel, in New York, and J. 8S. Wheelwright, 97, will represent Yale. The Corbett Letter. No action has been taken by the Fac- ulty in regard to the letter and Yale flag that were sent to James J. Corbett, wishing him success in the prize fight on St. Patrick’s Day. The members of the Faculty were extremely indignant at the dozen Juniors who perpetrated the deed, but with few exceptions thought the matter one to be judged and censured by the public sentiment of the undergraduates, rather than by any disciplinary act of the Faculty. It is said that some of the professors, however, were in favor of some very rigorous measures in the direction of punishing the members of the Corbett Club, for an act that, in their minds, retiected discredit upon the University. The next meeting of the Faculty takes place this afternoon (Thursday, March 25), and it is possible that this question will be brought up for discussion, but no direct action is anticipated. Whe efforts of the Juniors to recover the flag that was sent to Mr. Corbett, have, as far as can now be learned, not been crowned with success. No mention was made in the accounts of the fight of the presence of a Yale flag in Corbett’s ‘‘corner.” > <Lt» ~ Th Fayerweather Will Case. The final decision in regard to the set- tlement of the Fayerweather will case was reached at Albany, March 23, when the Court of Appeals denied, with costs, the motion fora reargument. This al- lows the court’s decision of several weeks ago to stand, by the terms of which the $2,500,000 residue of. the es- tate was to be distributed among the twenty colleges that were originally named in the tenth clause of the will. TIFFANY & CO. Makers of Corporate and Frater- nity Seals and Dies Silver Testi- monials Athletic Prizes Class Pins ‘Society Emblems Engraved Invyi- tations and Stationery for the Leading Universities Colleges and other Educational Institutions. Cuts of Watches and Chains sent upon request. UNION SQUARE NEW YORK. (Continued from third page.) ence, covers nearly half aé_e cen- tury. In that time she has more than quadrupled her matriculates. “T have no desire to be too technical or tedious on an occasion like this, when everybody, except the senior and pre- siding officer, is expected to be as light and sparkling as the vintage which cheers us. But we owe it as a duty on these occasion to put in a serious word for our Alma Mater. “IT am sorry to find. that. .there are only five Kentuckians in the Academi- cal Department of Yale. Althought born in the South and regarded extreme in my local devotion, I have always thought it would be better for the country if there was a larger attend- ance of the young men of each section upon the educational institutions of the other. I have found its tendency to confirm rather than weaken one’s love for home, but yet to broaden one’s views, and substitute argument for prejudice. The South has wisely pa- tronized Northern institutions with benefit, as the influence of her educa- ted men attests. But it remains for the North and the Hast to follow her exam- ple. We have representatives in Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Princeton, but who hears of students from New En- gland or the belt above the Potomac and Ohio in the University of Virginia or Tulane? It is only by such recip- rocity that intellectual free trade can thrive and the thick walls of provin- cialism and prejudice can be. broken down. There is no sectionalism in scholarship, and education should be as broad as liberty itself and the patriot- ism of a.man should be directly and his sectionalism inversely as the breath of his education.”’ & At the business meeting of the As- sociation the following officers were elected: President, Col. J. .Stoddard Johnston, °58;: Vice. President, J. §. Bockee, ’62; Secretary and Treasurer, Stuart McKnight, ’93; Executive Com- mites, (ooT:. Batiard,: 408... Dr abc. Bloom ,78, and F. E. Gatchell, ’93. —__—__+0o—___—_ Hartford Reunion of ’92. The Connecticut members of the Class of ’92 held an informal meet- ing at the Hotel Hartford, MHart- ford, Conn., on Saturday evening, March 20. Howell Cheney, of South Manchester, was toast master, and L. P,. W. Marvin, of Hartford, choir mas- ter. There was much singing of college songs and every member of the Class present made a speech. Those present were: Arthur Seth Barnes, of New Ha- ven; Herbert Ovid Bowers, of Manches- ter; Howell Cheney, of South Manches- ter; Elisha Hilliard Cooper, of Buck- land; Arthur Lewis Day, of New Ha- ven; Harrison B. Freeman, Jr., of Hartford; Daniel Edgar Munson, of New Haven; Arthur Merwin Marsh, of Bridgeport; L. P. W. Marvin, of Hart- ford; Francis Miner Moody, of Bloom- field; Frank Wright Seymour, of Win- sted; Forrest Shepherd, of Hartford; Elmer Haynes Spaulding, of New Lon- don; James Archibald Turnbull, of Hartford; Warren Goodman Water- man, of Southport; James Everett Wheeler, of New Haven. The local Committee of Arrangements was Har- rison B. Freeman, Jr.. Howell Cheney, L. P. W. Marvin, and Forrest Shepherd. ————__ > > ____—- Subject for Princeton Debate. Yale has chosen the following sub- ject for the annual debate with Prince- ton, which is to be held in New Ha- ven on May 7th: Resolved, ‘“That the Power of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives is de- trimental to the public interest.” Princeton has the choice of sides and must submit her decision within two weeks. At the meeting of the University Club of New York, Saturday, March 20, the plans of the new club house were unan- imously approved. The total cost will be $2,000,000.. The Building Committee consists of David L. Haight, ’60; Hugh P. Auchincloss, ’79; Charles L. Atter- bury, ’64: Charles T, Barney, and the President of the Club ex-officio. ~
