Athletics at Columbia.

At a mass meeting of Columbia students held last Saturday a complete change of method in the management of the athletic interests of the university was made. For the old system of a separate organization for each branch of athletics, a general athletic association was substituted. According to the articles of the new system the control of all athletics is vested in a committee made up of five graduates and the captains and managers of the various teams. The graduates are known as the "advisory committee," and are elected by the alumni council. The undergraduate representatives, captains and managers, are to be elected, the former by the respective teams and the latter by the students. The undergraduate committee will virtually control affairs, but its decisions will be subject to the approval of the advisory committee. A paid treasurer will be appointed who will have charge of all athletic funds and houses. He must be either a graduate or one who has passed two years at college and whose class has been graduated. This system is modelled after the one now in use at Princeton.