CLUB SYSTEM RE-ORGANIZED

With the advent of the Freshman Dormitories and the consequent readjustment of certain phases of undergraduate life has come an agreement between a number of clubs regulating the election of members. The subscribers to this agreement, which is printed in full below, are the A.D., Delphic, Digamma, Fly, Iriquois, Kalumet, Owl, Phoenix, Porcellian, Spee, and Sphinx. The movement was initiated and put through entirely by students; its first effect will be to keep the Freshman class a unit.

The agreement, signed by the above named clubs, is as follows:

1. Canvassing is here defined as "reading" or speaking or making to any undergraduate any statement or representation about any club, or notifying him directly or indirectly that he is or is not under consideration as a future member of any club.

2. Each club shall prohibit its undergraduate members and its members elect (meaning thereby persons notified of their election but not yet initiated) from canvassing any undergraduate before the opening of College in his Sophomore year.

3. Each club shall request its graduate members to consider it a point of honor not to canvass any undergraduate in any way before the opening of College in his Sophomore year.

4. No pledge or promise shall be accepted or taken from any undergraduate before the Friday following the first Monday in November of his Sophomore year by any club or by any member thereof to the effect that he will join any club or that he will not join any other club and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduate or upon any of the said clubs agreeing hereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement.

5. No club shall elect as a member any undergraduate before the first Monday in November of his Sophomore year, or before that time pledge or promise election, even by implication, to such undergraduate.

6. No club shall give notice to any undergraduate of his election earlier than the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of his Sophomore year.

7. No club shall take as a member any undergraduate from the class of 1918 or subsequent classes, who has accepted election before November in his Sophomore year to any other social club or society which takes in less than 100 members from a college class. The Advisory Committee shall have power to determine what organizations come within the meaning of this rule.

8. The clubs shall urge their members to change the elections to the Institute of 1770 so that the membership therein shall be increased to at least 150 men from each class, and that they shall be initiated therein at the rate of at least 15 men a week, beginning as early as possible in the Sophomore year.

9. Each club shall, annually before Commencement Day, appoint a graduate representative to serve throughout the following year on an Advisory Committee, which committee shall elect its own chairman, who need not be a representative appointed by a club, and shall consider matters arising under this agreement and such modifications thereof as may seem desirable. The powers of this committee shall be advisory only, except that it shall be advisory only, except that it shall be the duty of this committee to take suitable steps to make this agreement known to all persons concerned.

10. This agreement shall be effective with relation to the members of the class of 1918 and subsequent classes.

11. This agreement shall continue without limitation, except that any club may withdraw after giving one year's written notice to the parties hereto.

13. Inasmuch as the successful working of this agreement depends upon the strict observance of all rules herein contained, each club member shall consider it a mater of honor to maintain such rules.

For the furtherance of these it is hereby provided that--

(a) at stated intervals during the year the presidents of all the clubs that are parties to the agreement shall meet to discuss any question which may have arisen as to the working or infringement of the rules;

(b) any complaint shall be at that time reported;

(c) any disputes arising between any of the parties shall be referred to an Arbitration Committee which shall have absolute power to deal with the case as it shall think best. Such committee to be composed of not more than three graduates of the College, not members of any club herein a party, or the Advisory Committee (see clause 9) shall take upon itself such functions