NEW ELIGIBILITY RULES

Professor H. S. White, as chairman of the Athletic Committee, last night gave out the following statement in regard to the changes in the eligibility rules suggested at the conference between representatives of Harvard, Yale and Princeton last week:

The Harvard Athletic Committee voted this evening to concur with Yale and Princeton in an agreement covering substantially the following points:

Only such students shall be eligible for University teams who shall have completed satisfactorily one year's college work. (Freshmen and all men in their first year are barred by this rule.)

Holders of a degree advanced enough to admit at least to the Senior Class of Harvard, Yale and Princeton respectively shall not be eligible for University teams. (Graduate students in all departments of the Universities are barred by this rule.)

No special students shall be eligible for University teams except such as have satisfied full entrance requirements, have done a full year's work, and are doing a full year's work.

No student shall represent one or more Universities or Colleges in athletic contests for more than three years. (This is a corollary of the preceding rules). This rule is not to affect students now in College.

These rules are to go into effect in September, 1906.

The conference at which the above rules were proposed owes its origin to Harvard's initiative. In November, 1905, the Faculty of the Harvard Law School addressed a communication to the Athletic Committee requesting consideration of the advisability of barring graduate students from membership on University teams. It was the opinion of the above mentioned Faculty that such participation was injurious to good scholarship. The Athletic Committee was inclined to favor such a restriction, and overtures were made to Yale and Princeton accordingly, with the additional proposition that all men in their first year of residence should be barred. Both institutions expressed agreement with these propositions, and Yale added the suggestion respecting special students. At the discussions of the conference a spirit of mutual concession was pleasantly developed, and the results reached are a sufficient indication of the satisfactory relations existing between the institutions involved.

At the meeting of the Committee it was also voted to allow the track team to send two relay teams to take part in the intercollegiate meet at the New York Athletic Club on March 13, and in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival at Philadelphia on April 28.