New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-15
NEW QUARTERS SECURED.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY CLUB TO HAVE
ROOMS IN THE ROYALTON.
LARGE MEETING or THE MEMBERs-THE ACTION
OF TIE CORNELL ATHLETIC COUNCIL IN TIE
CoRNFrJ~YArE NEGOTIATIONS IN
THE UNIVERSITY.


THE UNIVERSITY.
Ore hundred and fifty members Of the Corner
University Club gathered last night AZ GoerwitS -
No l43 East Seventeenth-st. 10 hear The report OF
the Committee on New Quarters. OF which Henry
w Sackett IL chairman. and 20 transact other
necessary business The club was established IN
1850. and has increased so greatly In membership
and importance that permanent headquarters
was absolute necessity. The committee reported
that II had secured suite OF rooms In the ne"
Royalton Hotel In Forty third-st.. between flth
and Sixth ayes and announced that the furnish
ings OF the quarters would be completed and
house-warming be given not later than FEBRUARY l.
The suite is directly connected with the ho'e4 re-
ception and billiard rooms and adjoins the ne"
Psi Epsilon apartments. All others than the ciuo
apartments on the first floor OF the hotel are
bachelor APARTMENTS and the building is so ar
ranged 20 make II possible to connect the Cor
| nell cubrooms with those above. on the second
story should that be deemed expedent after the
first year.
The chair nan OF the meeting announced that the
| membership Of the club had become, since the
meeting n December $50 and Il is expected from
| pledges made last evening that this VIII re raise!
by not les sthsn a hundred before the annual dh-
ner. which Is 70 be held about the middle OF feotu-
| airy
The Cor lell Club has Just been organized rom
| tho old Cornell University Association or New
|
crease OF he membership fees from 81 10 slo mas
made II necessary 10 recsnvass the membership list
| o, the old association.
| William r. Bronx who was elected at me Ias
| meeting as the clubs representative 10 the Cor
nell Athletic Council At Ithaca. was present al
the meeting and gave report OF his visit 10
| Cornell University on last Saturday. MT bronk
| said that he had been received In not only coz
| dial but eager manner by the members OF ,he
council who we're anxious to know the op.ii,J,n
oriss II s interesting 10 record ne added. that
the policy advocated regarding 49, Us
Yale negotiations and for which We Iaooreu. wa
Substantially the policy adopted IN the commNi az
cation sent TO Yale AS 70 my ndivSuai
| gained from conversation with many OF our prom
alumni here before bs oer Wo UG has since be
| Announced was the only wise. safe and dgnihed
| course Tor Cornell to maintain. ..
II also have TO say that ore o. the members oi
| tho Council who had freely and forc!bly EXPRESSED
opinions different from those which were hnaly
! atonted told me that in view Of the wishes 90
strongly presented by the large ana po"ertuI ooiS
OF New-York alumni he did not feel at liberty o
! take a course other than that proposed ny ths
| club and ne should accordingly al the meeting VI
the Council advocate that policy" -,
Mr. Bronx thought this the greatest victory the
alumni had ever won He also reported tha At 1,
| irn,ri have vote as well as a seat in the Coun-
Gil would probably be granted in the near fgture
! aroused considerable interest. and that was his
recommendation that the Cornell Club OF New.
York a vigorous protest against the preseh'
treatment OF those engaged In athletics IN the ma +
ter OF compulsory military drill. In the charter o.
! Cornell University is clause which requires INA
the University shall in return for certain grants
made by the State. give. among other things
certain amount of instruction in military drii
| Last wear al University smoker Eugene r An
drews prominent alumnus-who was with FRO
fessor Wheeler Athens and - now IN charse o.
the department museum OF ancient archrology
called attention to the fact that the University wa
ovcrzealous and possibly overstepping its bounds II
requiring that all unierclassmen should dsvot'
three hours a week 10 drill. whereas the Stat'
clause leaves the subject elective in the case o.
the mechanic arts This drill hour comes al
time o. the day most useful for athletic training
and Mr. Bronx characterized the compulsion al
wrong His remarks were received with cheers
He also reported that Mr.. Bull. manager OF IN
department OF track athletics needed not less thar
81 900 for the continuance OF hat branch OF sport
The reasons why that branch was less successful
at Cornell than aquatics. football and pasebal
were largely financial ones. he said
Before the meeting adjourned George P. Dyer, al
ex-captaln Of the football team and member o
the Henley crew. read the following resolution
which was unanimously adopted
Resolved That the Cornell University Cluo o
New-York heartily comments the course taken b.
the Athletic Council OF Cornell University durn;
the recent Cornell-Yale negotiations. and wishes q
express its entire confidence in that body 10 guar
the dignity and 10 follow out the sDortsmanlik
attitude which the University has always main
'alned In athletics"