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SOCIETY COMMITTEE REPORT, THE YALE UNIVERSITY NINE.
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The Joint Committee, representing the
Sophomore Societies and the members
of the Senior Class who signed the peti-
tion for the abolishment of these socie-
ties, (which petition was subsequently
withdrawn temporarily, pending action
on the whole matter), have finally
reached an agreement which promises to
work a complete change in Yale’s social
system. 7
A report goes before the petitioners
and the Junior fraternities for con-
sideration this week, and a report, with
sunilar recommendations, from the
members of the separate Sophomore
Societies Committee, appointed by their
societies to suggest changes last Fall,
has been presented to the Sophomore
societies.
The report, agreed upon jointly by the
committee appointed from the Sopho-
more societies and the petitioners’ com-
mittee, with whom they were appointed
to confer, is embodied in the following
circular, which goes before the peti-
tioners on Wednesday, May 2:
Report of the Petitioners’ Com-
mittee.
Your Committee, elected on February
26 to confer with the committee from
the three Sophomore societies in regard
to a change in the present society system,
reports as follows:
We have met the Sophomore Societies
Committee as often as circumstances
would permit, and after consider-
ing many plans for the revision of the
society system a pyramid system of
class societies was unanimously agreed
upon. This system is based upon the
principle of elimination, the idea being
to have a large number of society men
in Sophomore year, and a smaller num-
ber in Junior year.
THE JOINT REPORT.
The report of the Joint Committee
follows:
“The Joint Committee elected by the
Sophomore societies and petitioners of
the Senior Class agree in recommend-
ing to the Sophomore societies, the
Junior fraternities and petitioners of
the Senior Class the following changes
in the society system:
_ That the present Junior fraternities
be extended over Sophomore year and
that the present Sophomore societies be
placed in Junior year; and -
That the numbers of the Sophomore
fraternities be 114 in all—38 in each,—
and
That the Junior societies shall each
take in from 20 to 25 men—not less than
60, nor more than 75 in all.
The fraternities and Junior societies
are to be placed on a competitive basis
and there is to be no joint campaign, as
exemplified in the present Junior socie-
ties, in either year: Each fraternity and
society shall stand on its own merits
It is expressly stipulated that the
Junior societies are not to restrict their
elections to members of the ‘fraternities.
“R. J. ScHWEpPE, Chairman,
For Sophomore Societies Committee.
"eels Dana, Chairman,
For Petitioners’ Committee.”
The Sophomore Societies Committee,
holding that the details as to elections,
Brown, 3b.
Quinby, 2b.
Sullivan, r.f.
times and numbers, should properly be
left to the societies, were unwilling to
join us in recommending a system of
elections. As a_ separate petitioners’
committee we would suggest the follow-
ing scheme of elections for the adop-
tion of the fraternities and_ societies.
&
FOR THE FRATERNITIES.
Spring Freshman year_--.-_- 25 25
25—75
Fall Sophomore year____--.-- 5 5 5—15
Spring Sophomore year____. 5 5 5—15
Rall Junior year: 25... +.3- 2 2 2— 6
Spring Junior year__.....--- I I I— 3
38 38 38 114
FOR THE JUNIOR SOCIETIES.
Spring of Sophomore year_.20 20 20-—60
| Numbers to be decided upon
Fall of Junior year | annually by the different
Spring Junior — saa acting independ-
ently.
Legal agreement should be entered
into by the fraternities and the socie-
ties in regard to the time for giving
hold-offs and pledges, and such inter-
vening time between hold-offs and elec-
tions should be as short as possible.
Your Committee is of the opinion that
the classes in Yale to-day are of suff-
cient size to warrant the presence of
another fraternity in Sophomore year.
We therefore recommend that Zeta Psi
extend her membership over Sophomore
year, thus placing herself on the same
independent competitive basis with the
three other ‘fraternities, Psi Upsilon,
Delta Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Delta
Phi.
The following are the reasons which
led your Committee to adopt the pyra-
mid system’
REASON FOR PYRAMID SYSTEM.
We consider a pyramid system of
societies as most compatible with the
tradition of class societies peculiar to
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DUAL GAMES FORECAST,
The Contest Will Be Close—Chances
Slightly in WVale’s Favor.
Yale’s track athletes will meet their
Harvard competitors, Saturday May 12,
on the track at Soldiers’ Field, Cam-
bridge, in the first contest for the new
cup presented by graduates of Yale and
Harvard through their representatives,
Walter Camp, Yale ’80, H. S. Brooks,
Yale ’86, and E. J. Wendell, and George
Morrison, Harvard.
Both universities have been weakened
by the graduation of several of last
year’s point winners, but MHarvard’s
losses promise to be more severely felt
than Yale’s. The large number of new
and untried men whose names appear
in the entry lists, makes it very diffi-
cult to attempt a forecast of the result,
but a review of the performances in
Yale’s inter-class games April 28 and in
the trial meets held at Harvard last
month, indicate that the contest will be
very close, with the chances slightly in
favor of Yale.
Yale’s strongest men in the hundred-
yards dash will be Blount, Dupee and
Richards. Blount, who showed himself
a consistent performer last season, at a
10% mark, should win the event, al-
though Butler, Harris, Sprague and
Haigh are expected to secure at least
one point for Harvard. Sprague’s in-
jured leg and the possibility that Haigh
will be saved for the quarter, make the
placing of the men a very difficult task.
It is-safe to count on Boardman to
win the 220-yards dash for Yale, but
Clerk or Butler of Harvard, will prob-
ably secure one of the other places over
Gleason and Dupee of Yale. The quar-
ter-mile should also go to Yale, through
Boardman’s speed. The other likely
men in this event are Haigh and Clerk
of Harvard, and Luce, Johnson, Thomas
and Brennan of Yale, though it may be
decided to put the last named man in
the half.
The Yale half-milers, Smith, Poynter,
Richardson, Ferry, and possibly Brennan
and Thomas, will have Swan, Blake-
more, Applegate, Ledyard and Walsh as
their opponents. On form, Smith should
be an easy winner. At this writing the
other places are uncertain. 3
Clark, Knowles and Williams, of Har-
vard, and Speer and Weston, of Yale,
are the probabilities in the mile. Clark
should win the race. >
The recent performances of Foote and
Richardson of Harvard indicate that
they will finish first and second respec-
tively in the two-mile run. Teel or
Waldron of Yale may land third place
from Blakemore of Harvard. Were it
not for complications with the College
authorities, which have rendered Strong
and Chittenden wunavailable, Yale’s
chances in this event would be much
brighter.
Fincke, Yale, and Hallowell, Harvard,
ran over the high hurdles within inches
of each other, in New Haven and later,
in England, last year. An equally close
race may be expected at Cambridge,
with Willis, Harvard, and Thomas, Yale,
well up.
Hallowell will, in all probability, win
the 220-yard hurdles. The race between
Willis and Thomas for second place
promises to be a close one, though Webb,
Hubbard or Ristine of Harvard may
score.
: THE FIELD EVENTS.
Daly, Ristine, Shirk, Harris and
Murphy of Harvard, have all covered
distances in the broad-jump greater than
any recorded in New Haven this
