The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-29
YGLE'S LTVBLIBST ELECTION
FIVE CANDIDATES FOR a PLACE
~ TEE CORPORATION.


TIE FaF Nesi. the missile west. the seam.
tire East and ths aheneld selentsae
sch0Sl An SEEKING nepresentMttaa
On tAe UniVeFsity's Governing Beard.
NEW HAVEN. May 2s.-Ths Hveliest
campaign in the 200 years Of Yale's
history for q place in the Yale Corpora
tiOn the governing board Of the univer-
sity. opened to-day when Secretary Arson
Phelps Stokes. Jr.. announced the list Of
/ Ave candidates. The place TO be filed is
the one held by Judge Henry r. How
land. 81. Of New York. who has declined
| 20 run again.
The Ave candidates we're selected from
a field Of thiFteen including clifford
PinchOt. 80. former United States
Forester; 8 " Colgate. Sc. Of New York.
and Frederick William Vanderbilt. 'T6s.
the founder Of the shshhsld doFmitoFy
system. Eight Of the thirteen refused
to he considsred a. candidates. and the
ave Who finally CONSENTED 70 run are
Otto T. Barnard. r. New York; Samuel
p. Brooks. %. Waco Tex: John V Far
we'll. Jr.. ~. Chicago Henry 7. Rogers.
20, Douvsr Col. and william " skiddy.
SSS. New YORK
Il IL the frat time in Hale's history
that alumni o. different sections Of the
country have organized 10 support candi-
dates representing their own sections
and have demanded that Yale shall
depart from the old custom Of electing
TO the governing board alumni from New
England or New York State. The Western
alumni are especially inEistent and have
placed two men In the field. one a. a
candidate Of the middle West and the
other ~ a representative from west Of
the Mississippi They say that Yale
must now decide Whistler 10 follow in
the lead Of Princeton. Harvard and
, Columbia and elect a candidate who
I shall represent the Western alumni or
whether 20 hold on 10 her Eastern tTAdi-
tons and thereby be a. q disadvantage
in the struggle for supremacy in the great
West Hundreds Of Yale alumni see in
the Issue . grave crisis for the prestige Of
| Yale
There has developed within . few
months feeling among Southern alumni
Of Yale that the south should be repre-
sentsd in the corporation for the same
reason that the West wants representa-
ton. There IL also a complaint that the
present Yale entrance examinations prac-
tically keep out ~ Yale. candidates for
admission who do not prepare St New
England schools. So the SOutherners
have a candidate in the hsld
| Tho sheffield ALUMNI think that ths
vacancy should he filed by one Of their
number. They point out that the cor
poratiOn consists nov Of seven academic
members 70 ono lone sheiheld repre-
/ sentative
Nearly all the Yale alumni are ready
| 10 admit that when II comes 20 the matter
Of qualifications for the once the Ave
! candidates are evenly mat ched. The
/ friends Of The candidates have begun
| sending out campaign circulars % the
| thousands Of alumni all over the country.
| From nov on until tho closs Of the ballot
ing on Tuesday, June u AZ p, ". tons
Of literature will GO through the mails
70 Yale men from the Atlantic 20 the
Pacific Ocean eEtOlling the merits Of each
candidate
In the pamphlets that the Sheffield
alumni are preparing IN behalf ~ ". "
Skiddy Of New York, they depend partly
on statistics 20 help Mr. Akiddy. Accord
ing 70 the present constitution Of the
corporation they aAy that out % q total
Of 3.es undergraduates IN tho Sheffield
and academic depaFtmsnta % tho unit
verHity. In are academic and LIZ
Sheffield students which means that
each present academic member Of the
corporation represents 7a6 academic
students while the entire liz Sheffield
undergraduates are represented by only
one member. Each auadamic momher %
the corporation represents .519 academic
graduates 70 3.5a9 graduates represented
BY the one Shsineid member.
| A additional Arguments IN favor %
Mr. skiddy i h pointsd out that he has
done much for Yale boating. has raised
money 10 keep the boating going, has
been largely responsible for Shellield's
strides financially In the last dscads and
( y one % tn founders ~ the Yale Alumni
| hInd By the aid og which Yale has been
aided IN paying her bills Mr. Skiddy u
president n several financial institutions.
Otto Barnard re CtbeT New YORK