The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-10
POLITICS BOOM AT COLUMBIA
LACKING FOOTBALL, THEY ARE
TO HAVE A CONVENTION.


RmsueA-Rur inc Vl0aI Issue Og the Price
Of Buns Has Been Omitted-NO Hope
Of Nominating President Butler.
The campaign is on at Columbia. AZ
every other college in b land there Is moth
ing doing at thiss season Of the year but foot
ball. but since Prof. George Odell and other
faculty authorities doped il out that football
il a coarse and brutal sport. fitting perhaps
for the degraded youth OF Harvard, Yale
and Princeton. but entirely unworthy the
attention OF the young gentlemen Of Morn
ingside Heights. the undergraduates have
been searching for the most available sub
stitute. Politics appears to be IL.
Consequently a call has been sent out for
a national convention to be held in the gym
nasium ON November 70. when a candidate
for president and another for vice-president
I will be nominated. Somebody has given
the word that il is to be a Republican con-
vention. The reason for this is not definitely
known. but the view most commonly ex-
pressed is that a Democratic convention is
too much like football.
Naturally the contest for delegates to the
convention is a hot one and considerable
bad blood has already been manifested.
The s~trictest precautions will be taken TO
exclude from the floor Of the convention all
persons who n show proper credCI.-
tials. These precautions have been vastly
stimulated by the report that a delegation
from the Alumni Association Of the Chatham
Square Floaters Academy would make an
Effort TO break into the convention and when
the time came for nominations stampede
the delegates in favor Of the nomination Of
Niger Mike. Pell streets ~favorite son.
To prevent the success of any such
scheme. it is learned. arrangements have
been made hat every Undergraduate OF
Columbia who is entitled TO admission as
a delegate shall on the day before the con-
ventiOn deposit his photograph with the
official doorkeeper. When he presents
himself for admission he will present a
duplicate Of this photograph. The door
keeper will compare this with the original.
This. il is confidently expected, will prevent
any member of the Alumni Association Of
| the Chatham Square FlOaters Academy
from gaining admission to the convention
disguised as a Columbia undergraduate.
President y. NJ. Buffers many FRIENDS
among what is known as the student body
have been busily engaged in working up
sentiment for him. They report some
progress. but still others n are close 20
the university's head declare positively
tnat President Butler will not be "A candi-
date for any presidency but the one be now
holds. The Texas delegates are likely to
stand out firmly for Butler. IL 10 learned.
and the Territorial delegation from Alaska
is also understood to be solid Tor him,
but these who know him best declare that
his resolution not to run cannot be s.aKcn.
They say that he believes his real lie ~ork
| TO be at Columbia.
Meantime there are Issues. Just who
issued them il not clear, but they have been
issued all right enough and the delegates
have a fortnight TO make up their minds
about them. Al a preliminary meeting
held Friday a LIST of the Issues was given
out after Dean Van AmTinge had made
a few brief remarks. in the course of which
he told the students that 1t was their duty
20 take an active interest in politics"
Naturally there will boz a committee on
platform and competition. for membership
in IL is keen. There are "A number OF able
Carpenters in the university, hut ~ il uni
versally expected that Simple Spe Her
Brander Matthews will have the chief
part in constructing the platform upon
which the university VIII appeal % tn.
country. Among the Issues which must
be settled by SIe platform committee before
Prof. Matthews makes The hnal Graft are
these:
Shall there he a Federal Health Depart
ment?
Shall the tariff he reyisd or lowcrIs
Shall increast naval appropriations he
made?
The list Of Issues furnished the under
graduates az the preliminary meeting in
I Guided thirteen more, each Just - good "A
ally Of the three samples just exhibited,
making "A totnI OF sixteen Issues warranted
not 70 rip, tear, warp, fade in the wash, wet
through iE the rain or run down at the
heel.
There is ara issue that some time ago
shook under graduate life az Columbia To
its very foundation. bus which finds no
list in the list gwen ont. Reduced 70 it,
elementary form IL may be stated thus.
Shall the university Inn sell
buns at the three for hve rate paid 10y our
forefathers or shall the rate be raised to
the trust made price Of two cents straight
IL may be said on authority thar white
the issues committee recognizes the fact
that no more vital issue b this has ever
been presented to any commu nifty. IL -
after all a matter Of comparatively local
import and scarcely entitled TO inclusion
in any statement of political faith intended
TO serve a. an appeal to the country at
large.
would seem TO be enough for any Republi-
can national convention 10 handle. especially
a. the delegates have only two weeks TO
make up their minds about them. Sixteen
issues and only fourteen day. that make,
one and one-ssventh ISSUES to be decided
on each day. This result i- reached by
the application Of the following well known
formula
a sherman anti irus, Law.
y Naval appropriations.
Z Reciprocity.
Then:
n sin ys-cot z-Nil-o-Iog. Prosperity.
Y. r.. ID,
This a. was last evening 80 we'll said
by one Of Columbia's most eminent mathe-
maticians. who has spent the best years "
his life teaching young men how 90 tell
a corrugated cOsine from an indurated
pretzel. becomes sull more evident through
the methods of graphic geometry. Estab-
lish, for example, the several values Of Z
and y upon their proper abscissa and Ordi-
nate. where the asymptote co rresponds
TO all possible values Of 2. plus a nd minus.
on eaah side Of the c~onjugate or reciprocal
fOci 81 the equation"
And VIII at could be clearer?