New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-06
NEW ELIGIBILITY RULES.
Says Summer Bali Lac Is Not
Supported or Enforced.
fBT TELEGRAPH TO rHE rRIBrSE. :

Providence. r l.. Feb 5.--The board Of directors
OF the Brown University Alumni Association has
issued report In explanation o: its action. n
nounced in yesterdays Tribune in repealng tbs
rule debarring students who have received money
for engaging in athletics in vacation from plaving
on teams Of the university. The principal reason
given fer the step was that the present system OF
announcing that members OF college athletic teams
had neve- played for money induced hypocrisy.
and that the eligibility rules were uos indCrsed by
undergraduates or the younger slrmni.
The board last November unanimously agreed
that the change now announced should take place.
but a minority was opposed 10 immediats unsup-
ported action. Accordingly support was unsuc-
cessfuIly sought, first from the so-calnd Brown
conference" Harvard. Pri-cstcn. Cornell Column
bia and PENNSYLVANIA. and then from Dartmouth
and other Nev-England colleges. After this. de-
Gliding not to continue under rules which II did not
support. the present action taken The beard
IT declared. unable 10 Obtain any positive in
formation that any members Of the baseball team
had played summer ball" and argued that an
arbitrary disqualification OF two me- mbers
suspicion would be unfair. that "a
withdraw the present baseball team 70 silence pos
Sloie ctlISlSH aS suESeSttd oE '"p 'a.u,ts ll'l-
hers, would n, = he supported BY the dnderSradu-
The present action vas taken by the vote Of one
faculty. the three graduate and the three under
graduate members Of the committee. Dean Alex
aud cricket PLAYER and Professor John z. Hiil
dissented Professor Courtney IanEdon was the
undergraduates. He has long been particularly
Genuncation Of s6ams or ali kinds The faculty
and alumni members Of the board are APPOINTED
by the corpora ton the undergraduates elected one
The acton ~ inc board Of directors %
tho Brown Athletic Association IN repeating
tho rule which debarre1 Students who nav"
senting Brown in lnterco!le giate contests was
followed TO-DAY by The resignation from the b3aT1
T. =. P EiI '''A'''D'' "''A''''''., '''' . 80
porAtion declined TO accept The resignatqns. and
adopted resolution conds mining the action Of a
portant sep before submitting the Mater 20 the
iaSuty COOPERATION sne student 9ody 0g,HI r az
With regard 20 the obstacles In The way Of an ef-
sect!ve administration % tn old rules the COM
mittcea report says:
College athletes ana those undergraduates. alum
it All 10 rot ger@rsy beii:ve in it, bdt on n,
contrary; are very generally disguised Win WIZ
ietir boards and college authorities everywhere -
perFuade thginscv,s a. Vel. as (, nor o, -
IS capable 90 being enforced. IN intercolegiste
isck in The co.Iege world. and IN the pubic gen
ersily 81 thdt an~ccssaFy mora.
In that respect renders It's maintenance JuStaahIe.
The demoralIzing casuistical art OF evasion o the
rule 10 apparently universally practised. and has
ben so highIy developed. that any attempts ob-
tain proofs % the rules iufractiou Ia Individual
brown Sthietes by a polite but frank refusal TO
answer questions that might incrir.nate them
selves or their fellows. which practically blocks oil
Investigation when taken In connection with ;he
usual bland assertions Of summer hotel keepers and
managers Of utter ignorance Of any money trans
actions all direct evidence Of which Is presumably
ko?t out OF existence.
The eligibility rules now prevailing at Brown
( are follows:
Fi-st-No student shall PLAY Brown varsity
team whose standing as 10 sChoaIship ana 40.
sence. docs strictly fulnl the requirements III
the faculty committee In charge % these matters.
Note.-In brief. student IL not IN good standing
who does not intend TO take a full years work. wE0
subie-. who has entered s special student. who
been IN residence from the beginning 81
the acadernic year. who il taking less than twelve
hours resident work. or who rs under college dis
Cicne. -.
manly conduct while connected with a varsity
lam shall be considered by twO-thirds vote OF
the board OF the Brown University Athletic Assoc
ciat.on an undesirable representative OF the uni
ycrslty shall be warned by the president Of the
Board and n again Offending shall by a two
thirds vote Of the board be publicly declared IN
eligible for the rest OF the academic year.
Ttlrd-\0 student shall receive remuneration, IL
rect or Indirect. from the university from any
his institution a al athlete. nor shall 1t be con-
Sidered legitimate for him 20 receive for this rca-
son financial help from any other source.
Fourth-NO student shaH. while connected with
main eligible IL he play upon any other team than
one - his own institution
Fiftb-No student who has played on the varsity
team of any other college university before
ing to Brown PLAY Brown varsity team
until he shall have resided at Brown one academic
Sixth-No graduate Of any other college or UNI
versty than Brown shall be eligible for any Brown
. varsity team
tercolegiate athletics after he has engaged therein
at Brown or elsewhere tor four years.