The sun., 1905-11-25
KINGDOM GOULD TURNED DOWN
THE KINGS GROWN or COLUMBIA
BLACKBALLS HIM.

Only One OF % Candidates Who wasn't
Admitted TO Student Society-He Is
Held Responsible FOR Orders Against
Hazing and Killing Class Rivalry.
II became known at Columbia yesterday
that Kingdom Gould, son Of George j.
Gould, had been turned down by Kings
Crown, the general student society, at the
annual election OF members from the sopho-
more class. This society has, as rule,
done little more than represent the general
student sentiment in very mild way,
but the present action has set the whole
college world by the ears. Young Gould
was nominated for membership by Perry D.
Bogue 'Oe college, president Of the society
Kings Crown was originally organized
as a literary fraternity, and membership in
it was considered honorary. Later num-
Der Of the radical minds of the society
determined that it was not performing
all the functions that ii might and altered
the constitution to make IL a general student
society, All undergraduates are eligible
to membership, but it has been the con-
sistcnt aim Of the members to keep out
men who might in any way be Objectionable
from the student point of view.
1t was in accordance with this latter
purpose that young Gould was turned down
by the society. His name was published in
the Columbia Spectator, the student daily
paper, on Thursday morning along with
large number OF other men who had been
passed by the council after nomin alton.
In the evening the Crown met. Before that
time some very strong electoneering was
done.
The majority of the men asserted that
Gould was responsible to very great ex-
tent for the interference Of President
Nicholas Murray Butler in the old time
custom of hazing. While they did not OBJ
ject particularly to this, they took the
stand that he had thus done much to kill
the spirit between the under classes, and
that therefore he was not wanted in any
organization which was supposed to be
representative Of the undergraduate in
terests.
Others, however while they admitted
that he was responsible for these things,
said that he had atoned for them by giving
liberal financial assistance to many of the
athletic activities of the university, and
recalled especially his gift of 5000 to the
class OF '0S for the purchase Of a new shell
for the freshmen to row against Yale. 1t
turned out, however, that these supporters
of Gould were in the minority, for when
the elections were held. he was thrown
out. Sixty-four names in a4 were voted
on by the Crown at the meeting. The
custom is that any man whose name is
written on five or more ballots shall be
thrown out, according to the blackhall
system in vogue.
out of twenty-three blackbal votes
to throw out some of those who had been
nominated, Gould received fourteen. After
it was learned that he had been defeated
the matter was freely discussed, and it was
found out that certain members of the
Crown who seldom attend the meetings
had come there especially to blackball him.
He was the only man out Of the sixty-four
who was dropped out
Student sentiment about the campus
was strongly in favor Of the action taken
by the Crown. The action of Kings Crown
is the result Of what is known as "the King
don Gould incident" of last Christmas
Gould was walking from the college grounds
to the house Of his fraternity, Delta Kappa
Epsilon, when a sophomore approached
him and attempted to get him to come to
the sophomore dinner. Gould started on
a run and was chased by about twelve other
second year men. AS he reached Hath
street Gould drew a revolver and fired at
his pursuers.
The result of the matter was that the
university suspended four Of the ring
leaders, A, Ageltinger, j. Finch, R. Cau-
chois and o. X. Doty, for two weeks. The
action of the university was very distaste-
full to the Undergraduate body, who were
of the opinion that Gould was at fault.
An entire revision of the hazing system
of Columbia was thereupon inaugurated,
and in his recent annual report DR.. Butler
said that he would put an end to it entirely.
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