Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-23
THE PLAN APPROVED
UNIVERSITY CLUB FORMED WITH
LARGE MEMBERSHIP.
Club House to Be Erected in the Near
Future-The Council of Ad-
ministration.

Forty universities and colleges of the
United States were represented at a meet
ing held at the New Willard last evening
for the purpose of hearing the reports Of
the various committees and subcommittee
lately appointed by the organizers of the
University Club which is projected for this
city. The reports were adopted by the
meeting and the organization of the club
announced. There will be membership in
the beginning of 545 resident and IS nom
resident members. with 200 awaiting the
action of the committee on membership.
Bylaws were adopted and the charter ap-
proved.
A council of administration was appoint
ed, to consist for the first year, of the fol-
lowing: Melville w. Fuller, chief justice
of the United States, Bowdoin; George B.
Cortelyou, Secretary of Commerce and La
Dor, Georgetown; Prof. Charles E. Monroe,
Harvard; Isaac H. Saunders, Virginia Mill
tary Institute; Gistordt Binchot, chief of
the bureau of forestry, Yale; Ralph p.
Barnard, Lehgh; Henry A. Pussey, Mas
Fowler, Dartmouth; George o. Totten, jr.,
Columbia; Wallace D. Mclean, Princeton;
Charles d. Wolcott, director Of the geologi-
cal survey, Hamilton. and Isaac r. Hit,
jr:, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Council to Organize.
This council will meet within few days
and organize, electing it's own officers and
attending to other matters which it will
have in charge. Immediately afterward a
general meeting of the members will be
called for the purpose of effecting general
acquaintance among them. committee
on membership among them, to consist of
the following: Gen. Ellis Spear, Bowdoin;
st. P. Blair, Dartmouth; George e. Pat
rick, Cornell; Wallace w. Hite, Yale; H.
H. Classic, Johns Hopkins; John F. Will
klns, Princeton; Howard A. Coombs Wor-
cester Polytechnic; ]. Holdsworth Gordon.
Columbian; DR.. Truman Able, Harvard
Charles F. Weller, University Of Michigan;
George p. Chase, University of Pennsylva-
MIA, and w. II. Robson, Vanderbilt.
The intention of the club is to erect a
permanent club house on a convenient site
within the near future, but for the present
and while the new house is in course of con-
struction, temporary home will be rented
neighborhood having been offered to the or
ganizers. In the new club house there will
be accommodations for bachelor members
who wish to make their homes there, apart
ments for this purpose being contemplated
in the plans of the architects. The dues
will be $40 per year for resident and $40 for
nonresident members, that sum having
been concluded to be the least that would
bring the necessary revenue for the pur-
poses of the club.
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scented.
Practically every university and college
in the United States, England and Germany
is represented in the membership with
which the club begins its career. the fol-
lowing being a few Of the prominent men
who have Joined, in addition to those whose
names appear on the rolls of the council
and membership committee:
Secretary Wilson, Department of Agricul-
ture; Senator Dryden, Representative X.
Wayne Parker, Chief Justice Clabaugh of
the District Supreme Court, Justice Bar
nard, District Supreme Court; Samuel ID.
Stratton, director of the bureau of stand
ards; S. N. D. North, director of the CEN
sus; Frederic l. Allen commissioner of pat
ents; Ellis H. Roberts, treasurer Of the
United States; DR.. ]. Taber Johnson, DR.. e.
w. Richardson, DIR. T. L. Mcdonald, DR.. L.
M. Swormstedt, John B. Henderson Jr,
j. ]. Darlington, President Charles ID.
Needham of Columbian University, Rev.
Teunis Hamln, Rev. Charles Ernest Smith,
Capt. Asa Walker, U. s. N; Admiral Hig-
ginson, U. S. N; Lieut.. Henry A. Ward,
u. S. N; Rev. John Van Schaick, jr.,
Ormsby McCammon, William Dudley
Foulke, ex-civil service commissioner; Rev.
John Gordon, r. B. Armstrong, assistant
secretary of the treasury: Isaac r. Hit,
ST., Rev. A. D. Mayo and Prof. William f.
Hillebrand.