BINGHAM ORGANIZES NEW UNDERGRADUATE COUNCIL

The captains and managers of the University's five major sports teams, and the President of the Minor Sports Council met in the office of W. J. Bingham '16 yesterday afternoon, and under the guidance of the Director of Athletics, formed a new organization which is to be known as the Undergraduate Athletics Council.

J. R. Burke '27 manager of the football team, and C. H. Weymer '27 manager of the crew, were elected President and Secretary, respectively, of the new Council.

Bingham Explains Plan

According to the plan explained by Bingham, the new body will take over the functions which have formerly resided in the Student Council in connection with athletic matters.

Since the reorganization of the Student Council three years ago, and the reduction of the former body to the more workmanlike size of 15, there have been complaints than the Student Council was not in a proper position to reflect the opinion of athletic organizations in the college because athletes were in a minority on this body.

Will Award Letters

The new Council will have authority to recommend the award of the "H" in all cases where the man has not participated in the Yale contest. A year ago the wholesale distribution of the insigna to Seniors on the football squad aroused considerable indignation among graduates, and in an effort to get a more resentative opinion of the students most closely connected with athletic affairs, the new body has been devised.

Recommendations of this Athletic Council will go to the Student Council for ratification and in turn will be presented to the final governing body in Harvard Athletics, the Committee for the Regulation of Athletic Sports of which Bingham is Chairman, and which consists, in addition to three undergraduates, of three members of the Faculty, and three graduates.