Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-02
THE ACTION REPUDIATRD.

The Mass Meeting of Yale Un1versity
Held Last Evening in Alumni Hall
Says That No Department of the
Untversity Shall be Excluded From
Athletics-5O2 Noes, 44OYeas.
The university mass meeting, which was
held in Alumni hall on the Yale campus at
7:15 last evening to take some action on
the recently enacted resolution debarring
graduate students of the various profess
sional schools from participation in athlet-
ic contests, was attended by fully 1900
members of the university, closely packed
into the big hall. The meeting was pre-
sided over by I. B. Laughlin 1913, who In
troduced as the first speaker Captain Vance
Mccormick, who made brief introduce
tory speech, putting the question and paw
ing the way for the others to follow.
Among those wins spoke pro and con on
the matter were Ballet of the law school,
Moyle, Curtis, Ives and Hartwell
and other members of the various
| departments of the university. One
of the speakers said: "We have
| got to root out this evil of men being al
| lowed on our athletic teams who come to
our professional schools for that purpose
| only. We must put ourselves before the
| public in q position to show that We are
willing to suffer for the good of athletics.
| It will hurt us at first. It cannot help but
| do it: but the result in the end will be for
the best We put our football, baseball
teams and rowing crew before the public
and we cannot afford to be liable to the
ceneure of being called professionals"
Another speak against the action said
that to confne the athletics to two depart
ments of the university was rank injustice
to the other departments. Two depart,
| ments did not represent the university
consequently there could be no more uni
| versity athletics.
Ballet said: All other rules that have
been made have proved inadequate for the
desired result. This one, however, seems
perfect. Because all the rules did not cut,
we need one that does cut and define more
accurately. Others have said 1t was only
Yale measure. But you will find thai
the other colleges will have to come to this
view eventually. Harvard really believes
this and is only held from its enforcement
by mere selfehness. I am most heartily
in favor of this rule because it will answe,
the purpose.
| Such statement coming from such {
prominent athletic man as Ballet Is sig
ni6cant. He is now member of the Law
school and hiss been on the crew.
Ives and Hartwell spoke strongly in ia
vor of the passage of the rule, saying tina
as Adee, Bob Cook, Vail and other promi
nent athletes are in favor of 1t that thei
| wish ought to have something to do will
: it, considering how much they have dom
for athletics.
The motion was then made that tn
chairman of the Yale News be empowere,
to appoint committees to make arrange
ments for the balloting in the various de
| partments and the total results be returne
to the Yale News board.
, The motion was declared out of order.
, Chairman Laughlin then said the a,
rangement which they had proposed t
; bring about was for each man in the ha
to file past the desk and get slip of pape
! on which the word Eyes" or 'No" shout
be written and deposited In the ballot DO
q at the exit. The motion was carried. Whe
the ballots were counted about $50 o'cloc
1t was found that the "Noes" had 1t by
majority of 80, the vote standing 500 DOC
| and 44O yes.
= This will settle the matter for tim,
? but it Is said that a prominent member {
t the faculty said that the measure would
put through whether the result of la
! evenings meeting was favorable or advers
The feeling of Che law school men WI
, pretty high, and 1t Is said that they worke
. hard for the success with which they me
70 The meeting had had the benefit of Wa
ter Camps open letter published in yeste
days Yale News, in which he reprimande
Yale for finding fault with the action I
her representatives at the intercollegia
y convention, and also the answer of Capital
Vail of the Harvard crew to the letter
Captain s. B. Ives of the Yale crew, ssyir
that Harvard stood read y to cooperate
Ia any such action. In spite of any of the
considerations, however, the law scho
# men were victorious.