The sun., 1900-08-19
COLLEGE CLuBS IN NEW YORK.
There Are Many OF Them and They Oner
Many Advantages to Graduates

When the New York Harvard Alumni de-
cided a few years ago 10 build clubhouse
suitable TO their needs 1t was foregone con-
cliison that Yale and Princeton would not
be long in following their example. These
three universities now have clubs in this city.
each a membership Of more than 1on
II il evident. from recent club list, that
college men take naturally TO clubs. The
University Club. Of course, heads the list with
its broad membership which includes grad
yates from every college Of importance in
this country. In addition to the Harvard.
Yale and Princeton clubs Cornell is repre-
scnted 10 n very fourishing organization which
will some day have a new clubhouse Of its own,
and nearly all the smaller colleges have either
clubs or associations which give an annual
dinner and occasional smoker More excu-
siye in membership are the Greek letter fra
ternlty clubs. Of which the D. X F.. Psi Upsilon
and Alpha Delta Phi are the best known. There
are half dozen others which support well
equipped clubs, In addition 20 all these clubs
there is the University Athletic cub grad
uate OF a college where the Greek letter so
cieties have chapters Ia thus eligible 90 mem-
bership in the University Club his own coli
ege club his Greek letter fraternity club and
The University Athletic Club. and many college
graduates do carry these four on their list
They meet much the same class OF men In each
and tho Younger men who cannot afOrd TO
belong 10 more than two clubs usually select
the one for college men which pleases them
best, and for a second club loin one that ls
not made up exclusively Of college men.
The total membership of these various coll
lege clubs lie large and their increasing pros
perity il evidence Of the fact that college as
socations are binding enough after man has
been graduated TO attract men TO Tho CUPS
founded on them. iales new clubhouse Is
to be something of a skyscraper and as such
II viii be an experiment In club building 1t
will have some very obvious advantages. even
though II may not look as much like a club
as a bachelor apartment house BY building
up into the air the number oi living rooms
for members Is largely increased. The Prince
ton Club is now located In comfortabie od,
fashioned house at Thirty-fourth street and
Park evenHe Like the i9e ,or anf tbs HaTTd s,pnoTi
OF the young alumni by making its dues very
low for men who have been out Of college less
than ten years one Of the distinctive fea;
scale OF dues II is safe 10 assume that not
more than half the graduates Of these COL
leges become wage learners until they have
been out of college four or five years II the
five years are used In preparing FOR IT, 40
moderate are the dues for the men who have
been out Of college less than hye years s1 that
membership In these clubs The Princeton
Club has now more than 1000 members ana
its dining rooms are well filled every day, Like
many of the fraternity clubs the Princeton
Club serves a table d'hote breakfast and din
ner one member OF the House COMMITTEES
lives in the club and he Is thus able to give
all the time necessary TO it, management
Such clubs as these offer home 10 the young
college man who comes 10 New York stranger
He finds In them many Of his old college friends
and the club oners more; N prop0tuGn On tn :" rrS
The University Club, on the other hand. is
one Of the most expensive clubs in town Its
initiation fee Is large and its dues are three
college or fraternity club Moreover an cleo
tion 10 membership Is more difficult to obtain