ALUMNI TO VOTE ON MEMBERSHIP INCREASE

Delegates from past classes and the various Harvard Clubs, among whose number will be Theodore Roosevelt '80, will meet in Lower Massachusetts this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock to decide whether the membership of the Alumni Association shall be extended to meet the increase in the franchise for the election of the Board of Overseers, recently made by the Corporation. The meeting was called by vote of the Executive Committee of the Directors of the Alumni Association. Judge F. J. Swayze '79, President of the Association, will preside. The committee appointed to have charge of the forum is composed of William Hooper '80, B. W. Trafford '93, Robert Winsor, Jr., '05, Roger Pierce '04, General Secretary.

The amendment of its constitution, which the Association will consider, is as follows:

"Article I. The recipient of all degrees hereafter or hereafter granted by Harvard College of at least one year's standing, and the members of all Faculties of Harvard College, are members of this Association, or are entitled to be so regarded."

The occasion for this amendment is found in the recent action of the Corporation and of the board of Overseers in extending the right to vote for Overseers to the holders of all Harvard degrees of at least five year's standing. Except that the Officers of Government and Instruction are excluded from voting for the Board of Overseers and that graduates of less than five years' standing are also excluded, membership in the Alumni Association and the electorate for Overseers has for many years been the same. In the past each extension of the franchise has been accompanied by a similar enlargement in the membership of the Alumni Association. The Directors, therefore, were unanimous in believing that the graduates of the professional schools, now that they were permitted to vote for Overseers, should also be given membership in the Association. Generally speaking, the electorate before has been confined to the graduates of the College. The proposed action, by increasing the membership of the Alumni Association, will enlarge it to embrace all graduates of the University.