The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-04
YALE ITEMS OF INTEREST
IMPORTANT CHANGE IN RULES OF
PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY.


PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY.
Meetings to be Held Bl-Weekly Instead of
Monthly-AnnuaI Meeting of Graduates
Club, February 9th-Relay Team Goes to
Boston Tomorrow Noon-Mass Meeting
at the Law School To-day.
A conference Of the football rules
committee, representing the large east
ern universities will be held on Febru-
airy 10 at the University Athletic club
in New York city. With the exception
of Joseph H. Sears, who has been Har-
wards representative at all similar
meetings of the committee heretofore
held. the committee will be practically
the same as in the past, namely, r. D.
Wrenn of HARVARD, Alexander Moffat
of Princeton, ]. c. Bell of University of
Pennsylvania, Walter Camp of Yale,
L. M. Denniss of Cornell, Paul Dashiell
of Lehigh.
PRINCETON COACHERS.
The Princeton baseball management
has engaged three coachers for the
baseball candidates this season-Jayne,
last years pitcher; ex-Captain Bradley
and William Clarke, catcher on the
Baltimore nine. The latter will coach
the team for few weeks before the
games with Harvard and Yale. Jayne
will have full charge of the pitchers
and Bradley will act as general coach.
GRADUATES CLUB.
The Graduates club will hold it's an
nual meeting at the club house on
Chapel street on Tuesday evening, Feb
ruary at 8 o'clock for the election of
officers and the transaction of other
business. The nominating committee
consisting of Eli Whitney SO, chair
man, w. J. Comstock '79S., DR.. w. G.
Daggett 80, e. G. auckland '89 L. s.,
and Russell Sargent 'S4S., have posted
the following nominations: For pres
ident, Prof. Theodore S. Woolsey TO;
for vice president, Rev. Edwin s. Lines
70: for second vice president, Or. New
man Smyth of Dowdoin '63; for the
governing board for three years, ending
1901 Wilbur F. Day, jr., '92S., DR..
Henry w. Ring, Morris F. Tyler 30,
and Edward V. Reynolds 'SOS. for
committee on admissions, Dr. William
H. Carmalt 81, DR.. Leonard c. San
ford 80, Frank L. Bigelow sis, and
Henry Brewer '94S.
The following lectures will be given
before the Graduates club during the
winter: February IS, Howard Mans
field Of New York on Japanese Color
Prints" His lecture will be illustrated
by choice examples from private col
lections. March rs, Prof. Morse Stew
ems of Cornell university, who will lee
| ture on 1.-THE English In india" 1t is
expected that Isaac Bromley of New
York and Prof. Hoppin of Yale will
also address the club. but dates for
their lectures have not yet been de-
| cided upon.
TRACK TEAM.
The relay team, with Mr.. Fitzpatrick,
will leave New Haven on Saturday for
Boston on the train starting at IL
| o'clock, to participate in the B. A. A.
games. The team will stay at the
Thorndyke hotel.
INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
| A meeting of the executive commit
ISOLATION was held in New Haven
Tuesday night. Yale was represented
by Sumner K. Gerard '97. Important
action in regard to training tables at
colleges was taken. The proposed
| change reads as follows: "No one
| shall represent any college or univec-
| sity as competitor at an intercollegi-
| ate meeting who shall at any time afr
ter February rs, 1898, attend any train
| ing table without paying for his board
at that training table an amount equal
to that which his board would have
cost him had he not been at such train
| ing table. In case a competitors quail
ifications as to the payment of such
expenses are questioned he shall fur
nish to the executive committee an affi-
! davit from himself stating he has COM
piled in letter and spirit with Clause B
| of Article XVII of this constitution
| and shall state in such affidavit the
| ordinary cost of his board and the
amount paid, as board, for his training
table. He shall also furnish from the
/ person or persons to whom he has paid
said board an affidavit setting forth
\ the amount paid to and received by
him Cor them) as board from the pro-