Nephew Denies Burr Ticketed Gift For Varsity Club; Council to Study

A four-man committee appointed by the Student Council will begin a thorough study of the varsity club dispute today. In the resolution which created the committee, D. Broward Craig '50, its author, said "it is felt that a new varsity club is a luxury not warranted at this time in the face of many more pressing needs in the University.

"Therefore, if it is at all possible, the Student Council feels that a new allocation of the money should be made. The new committee is supposed to make "constructive suggestions" to the Corporation. This means that it could conceivably ask for a larger varsity club, as some council members suggested.

During a debate which preceded the council resolution, Herbert P. Gleason '50 said that Allston Burr '89--who made the $1,500,000 grant of which one sixth is earmarked toward a varsity club--had made no stipulations in his will about where his money should go.

In private conversation, Gleason asserted, Burr had told him that he was not wholly familiar with the needs of the University and was prepared to let the administration make the decisions.

Gleason, John T. Coan, Jr. '51, James F. Hornig '50, and Henry M. Silveira '51 will serve on the Council committee on the varsity club.