The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-02
YALE VOTES.
Gan Club Meeting Special Freshman
 Greek Diyision-Athistio Notes of Inter-

Gan Club Meeting-speoiai Freshman Greek Diyision-Athistio Notes of Inter sst
 A meeting of those interested in shooting was held at No. Vanderbilt. Wednesday evening. for the purpose of organizing a gun club for the ensuing year. H. c. Miller 's5. had already been elected captain. and at this meet ing w. s. Miller 'ss was elected presi- dent and I. D. Yam 's7 secretary and treasurer. Practice shoots will begin immediately and will be held twice a week.
 SPECIAL GREEK DIVISION.
 A special division in Greek. which will consist of from forty to fifty members of the freshman class. is to be organ ixed this week and will be in charge of Professor Seymour and Mir. Brownson. Men will be chosen for this division &C., cording to the excellence of their ex- aminations and of their work this fall up to date. The complete list will be announced to-day in the different divi- slons. There will be four recitations a week. two with Prof. Seymour on the latter books of the Iliad and two with Mir. Brownson in odyssy. Prof. Seymour had charge of the first meeting which was held at 19s Old Chapel yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Members of this division will have three recitations in place of their regular ones in Greek. Membership is retained only through excellence of work while new men may be chosen from the class at any time. COLLEGE SPORTS AND CERTAIN uNwHoLE-
 SOME TENDENCIES.
 Harper's Weekly in its able depart ment devoted to athletics says this week:
 "Apropos of the comment in this de- partment on the unwholesome tenden- cies of college sport and the apparent indifference of alumni, I give space to the following letter:
 q agree with you in what you say in this weeks number of Harper's Weekly on the various abuses which are sooner or later bound to kill intercollegiate football. I have been so thoroughly disgusted this year with the various college squabbles over time and place of playing, over the commercial ele- ment which dictates the college football spirit of the age, the playing for gate receipts, and the general 'Barnumized' tendency to boom the game, that had outlined letter to you on the subject. There is one point which I want you to discuss which you cover, and that is the absolute power that the college fac ulty has in this matter. have main- tained for the past six years that 1t Is ridiculous to permit any abuse when the faculty have the power in their hands to control 1t. You can readily see that an alumnus who Is acting in the capacity of graduate advisor has only an advisory power and not a man. datory power; but the athletic commit tee of the college faculty has absolute power to correct any abuse that exists. Ispeak with knowledge when say that there has never been a time since '8S (from which time these various abuses begin to date) that 1t has not been ab- solutely in the hands of any athletic committee of any college to correct these abuses as they have developed. It has been my experince that the fac- ulty college committee are less prone to correct an abuse than the graduate advisory committee, and 1t is unQues- tionably exasperating to think of the puerility of the excuse that no one has 1t in their power to correct the existing evils in college athletics. In discussing this question you can make no invidious distinctions in your criticisms of the larger colleges. cannot see that any unfair comparison can be drawn against any one in this particular; they are all equally guilty. do think that the alumni sentiment is honest, but weak kneed, for when 1t comes to the pinch, and 1t is g. question of victory and sup porting an abuse, they are inclined to shut their eyes and leave the under- graduates to drift along in their same old way. In all honesty, I cannot blame the undergraduate for the present con- dition of affairs for to anyone who has followed this question closely and been
 
 easy to see that abuses have developed directly under the patronage of the fac- ulty athletic committees. How to cor rect the growing tendency is g. difficult one. Securing any joint action of a combined faculty and graduate commit tee of the various colleges seems to be an impossibility, and unfortunately some of those who pose as reformers in this movement are not without suspi- cion. It Is reasonable to suppose that this, like all other public matters, will be corrected by public sentiment when the abuses get beyond bounds that the public cannot swallow"
 This letter is from college man who is sufficiently student of sport to recognize its value to the undergrad 'uate and depl0re any tendency which is harmful. It represents, too, the feeling among alumni that have reached years of maturity. There Is undoubtedly 3 growing conviction that unless more rational management ob- tains in football. in the matter Of gate charges and arrangements for games the faculty should take the matter in hand and forbid, first more than fifty cents admission and one dollar and a bali for reserved seats being charged; and second, games on other than col lege grounds or under other than coi- lege management. HE'S ! Il fs53 T at 3Y1a shnne hnwavo, that 4hn ,,ocas.