New-York tribune., 1906-10-23
RESTRICTS ATHLETICS.
". Y. y. TAKES ACTION.
Bars Graduate and Professional
School Men from Teams.

| The officials Of New York University. through
| the council. its advisory board have taken de-
cided stand in regard to athletics at present
conducted. At the annual meeting of the council
or the university, held yesterday a resolution was
| unanimously adopted in which 1t was ordered tha,
hereafter only students in the academic and scien-
| tfc departments shall be eligible for athletics
This eliminates all students In professional courses
Including those in the School OF Pedagogy the Law
School, School of Commerce, Medical School and
all postgraduate. courses As one member of the
council said:
This will bar out all Of the students who may
h Sn rTI of sIdy vens da ana and M
to the students who are deXoting all OF their time
and will become positive law in the future
Tho limitations of the candidates for athletic
teams will not go into effect this year the rule
will become operative next year. Such athletes as
are already playing football who students In
professional Will be allowed to remain.
The council also allows athletes already members
of teams TO remain as long the athletic rules
allow.
The resolution offered by Chancellor Henry
NJ MacCracken. and was follows:
No student shall represent the university IN any
intercollegiate contest under the auspices of the
University Athletic Association unless he be
university college or the faculty of the School OF
Applied Science. and in other respects fall within
sports '' s'''-'''S AiA"' "'7D'
This rule is not to be retroactive or to apply to
sional schools who were members of any team of
vent an Undergraduate Student Of New York Gni
eTy scS6 ThS roI school or PrOfes
bershp on team allowed him by the rules OF
the athletic association.
Chancellor MacCracken submitted his annual re-
port. and he urged particularly the ideal OF a
university liberal and extensive scale On this
matter he said:
New York University is liberal because It dis
eliminates against color or sect or condition II
receives alike the foreign born and native and in
as men; 1t puts not only its property accumula-
tons OF the past at the command OF students but
than $4,000 yearly beyond all its income from en-
dowment and Its receipts from students. in order
IN its exactng political or religious test from
any of its teachers. Our faculty enjoys university
freedom.
The university at the present time the chancellor
reported ranks fourteenth In the United State, I'm
value OF Its grounds and buildings. In the coiec-
universities which surpass New York University
The local university even surpasses Princeton. th.
University OF California, Leland Stanford Junior
and other large universities
Inc university at present has eight degree giving
hacuitles' winch conduct eight schools These
schools enroll lOS professors and l3S lecturers in
sructors and assistants. During the last wear
there were over 1900 students the present wear
shows an increase OF over 800 The present fresh
man class shows over 80 different preparatory
schools having representatives
The council of the university re-eIected sava,
retiring members. but did not I'LL two vacancies
The vacancies were caused by the death OF Albert
J. Pitkin, who died on November Is 1906 and by ths
resignation OF William H Nichols The reelected
members OF the council. who will hold once for
-FOUR years. are William Lorins Andrswa William