Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-26
COLLEGE MEN APPROVE
UNIVERSITY CLUB IDEA
Many Responses Received by Sccre-
tary G. III. Winfrey to Pre-
liminary Circulars.
ORGANIZATIONS MAY JOIN IN
Many Colleges Represented in List
OF Those Who Will Form Charter
Members Of New Social Institution.
Some Addresses Not Known.

Present indications point to the
success of the movement to establish
in Richmond n University Club The
college men of Richmond-and there
are nearly 1000 of them-arc very
anxious to affiliate with such an or
ganization. If the number of favora hle
replies received by the Acting Score
tary G. II. Winfrey, in answer to the
circular letters mailed recently. mean
anything.
In other cities membership in the
/ University Club is considered II dis
tinction easily comparable to member
ship in organizations like the Phi Beta
Kappa in academic life. In Baltimore,
Indianapolis. New York Syracuse.
Erie, Atlanta and in dozens OF other
cities OF Richmond's size. and also in
some smaller than Richmond, these
University Clubs arc f1ourishinE. Ac-
tive organizations and the college men
in both professional and business life
that is. those who are both eligible
and desirable-gravitate towards the
University Club as naturally as they
do towards Alma Mata at commence
iTent time.
Such an organization gives its mem
bers more of the atmosphere OF col
lcgc life than they can get in any
other way outside OF college. Nat
, urally, the social features of such n
club are delightful. II is proposed TO
bring together the Richmond Alumni
Associations of the different colleges
and universities
MAKE NEW CLUB HEADQUARTERS
FOR MANY ORGANIZATIONS
1t is also the plan of those who are
members of the committee to make
this club the headquarters of the En-
Eineers' Club. the Chemists Club. the
Society of Architects, possibly the
Academy of Physicians and Surgeons,
the Principals Club, the Ministerial
Union, and other organizations whose
members are almost wholly college
men. The men who have already in
Dictated their Willingness to join the
organization represent practically every
profession and business in Richmond
Lawyers. ministers. doctors, en-
gineers. architects. chemists. newspaper
men, teachers in colleges, two college
presidents. judges and men in other
official positions and others have eN-
pressed 4 desire to become members.
These men represent practically every
wcll-known institution in the East. as
we'll rs several abroad. Among them
are alumni of Princeton, Dartmouth
University of Virginia, Harvard. V. NJ
l., George Washington. Johns Hopkins,
Chicago. Pennsylvania, Trinity, Yale
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Washington and Lee, Syracuse, Cornell
University of Kansas University of
Ohio. Medical College Of Virginia.
Richmond College. Randolph Macon
College. Hampden- Sidney and William
and Mary Alumni of the University
of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Berlin
have asked for membership.
The secretary has been delayed In
getting the ciculars out because so
many desirable men are not listed with
the local alumni associations. and it
takes time to find them and their adj
dresses. Those who are interested may
send their names and addresses to the
secretary ut 102 West Street. and the
circular letter will be sent promptly.