The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-09
STATEMENT BY YALE MEN
CONCERNING THE SO-CALLED
 CRIMINAL CLUB.
Prominent M Nembers of the senfor GLASS Set Forth Their Side of the Matter Criminal Club Has No Organizatioh' No Officers and No oConstitution-Facts of the Case.


 The publicity given the banquet or the so called Yale Criminal club on Wednesday evening has caused vast amount of comment on the campus and among the members of the Yale faculty, The banquet was held in the Tontine and was arranged purely for sake or pleasure and not with any intention of doing anything in any way detrimental to Yale, according to the avowed state ments of some of the most prominent Yale men in the party The matter was taken up by Dean Wright Of the academic department yesterday and memorandum of the affair was made. This was carefully considered and, it is reported that some of the students at inc banquet were summoned before the dean The dean stated yesterday that nothing would be announced concern ing the action of the faculty and 1t is understood that the case is closed.
 President Hadley stated that it had been known for several years that a so called Criminal club of some kind eX- jsted at Yale but such a club had no real organization and existed in name only.
 One of those interested in the event of Wednesday evening stated last even ing that the students met some tune ago and decided to hold banquet At the banquet the exercises were strictly of fictitious nature and were nor taken seriously by any one present. The same student averred that no con- stitution ever existed and that conse- uuently the men could not pledge them selves to work in opposition to the po- lice of New Haven.
 It was further stated that the men who were alleged to be members were men who had been arrested for such misdemeanors as the riding of bicycles without lanterns, the firing of fire arms within the city limits on the oc- casion of notable football games and only two or three of the men had been arrested for drunkenness.
 On the campus. yesterday, a strong sentiment existed against the club. many of the students were outspoken in their remarks and it was very frequent ly remarked that the club was cer- tainly no honor to Yale" There was also talk of portable suspensions or ex- pulsions and some of the students went so far as to state that the fact that many of the Criminal club members were so very well connected, socially, was all the more potent reason why some of them should be dealt with sum- marily.
 Last evening the members of the senior class who were at the banquet on Wednesday evening and who took part in hte celebration on the campus later in the evening, issued the follow ing statement, which shows that the students had misjudged the members of the socalled club and that the club as an organization does not and did not exist. The statement which is satisfac- tory to the authorities of Yale, follows:
 "In view of misleading accounts which have been published of the Yale Criminal club, we feel called upon to say that it has no organizations, no president. no constitution; that it's ex- istence was ephemeral, and solely for the purpose of getting up a humorous dinner. No one regrets more than the men concerned any injury to the name of Yale to which this misunderstanding has led. ((signed) 'FI I, Fox