Social Athletic Club.

There was a meeting held a few days since to discuss the subject of forming a social athletic club. Most of the members of university teams were present and it was decided to form a club, which should be composed entirely of the members, past and present, of university teams, and should have for its object the bringing together of athletic men on a social basis for the better improvement and discussion of college athletics whether intercollegiate or not. Officers were chosen as follows: Franklin Remington, president; W. A. Brooks, vice-president; A. P. Butler, secretary, and A. F. Holden, treasurer. These officers with Messrs. Woodman and Adams to constitute a committee of government.

The club has secured a house, and, as soon as its finances are assured, will at once take its place among college societies.

Once started the athletic club will undoubtedly be of the greatest benefit to athletics and will, it is hoped, put an end to anything but the best and most generous feelings between itself and all other colleges. At its rooms all the principals in the athletic circle can collect and discuss any disputed point by themselves, and can come to a decision before any feelings of doubt or misgiving get abroad to widen the little breach which rivalry always makes between colleges. At the same time it is hoped that the club will have its effects at home in improving the teams and drawing out the best men at hand to belong to them. It will offer an opportunity for captains to talk to their men at any length without fear of interruption, and at the same time will create a general feeling of equality and social friendship beneath the different athletic organizations.

The club seems ready to be of some use outside of mere social pleasures, and to fill a place where it may do a great deal towards keeping up a manly and generous feeling upon all athletic matches. If the finances are started upon a sure basis the club cannot fail to succeed.