Friendship

Walter E. Hope, efficient President of the Princeton Club of New York City, wrote the following letter to George T. Adee, genial President of the Yale Club:

My dear Mr. Adee:

The officers and council of the Princeton Club of New York have on various occasions taken opportunity to express their grateful appreciation of the hospitality and many courtesies extended by the Yale Club to the Princeton Club during the War period and the years immediately following. . . . The Princeton Club has for some time desired . . to present some tangible evidence of its appreciation.

We take special pleasure, therefore, in advising you that ... the Princeton Club of New York will hold it a privilege to establish at Yale University, a scholarship of $750 per year, to be awarded to a boy nominated by the Yale Club of New York. . . It is pur desire to attach no restrictions or conditions to the scholarship excepting only such as you may see fit to prescribe.

We venture to express the hope that this scholarship may serve the double purpose of assisting deserving boys in obtaining education and at the same time of evidencing the feeling of good-will and mutual esteem which has continued unbroken between our respective Universities for these many years.

Yours faithfully,

(Signed) WALTER E. HOPE,

President of the Princeton Club of New York.

The Yale Club was quick to accept Mr. Hope's offer. Then it referred the matter to the Yale authorities, and President Angell and his Council adopted the following resolution:

VOTED, to extend the thanks of the President and Fellows to the Officers and Council of the Princeton Club of New York and through them to its members for their generous offer "to establish at Yale University a scholarship of $750 per year, to be awarded to a boy nominated by the Yale Club of New York" . . .

VOTED, to designate the scholarship mentioned as the Princeton Club of New York Scholarship and to direct the Secretary . . . to publish with these resolutions . . . the following letter to Walter E. Hope, President of the Princeton Club of New York, in the belief that this will make for ever-increasing good-will and friendship between the graduates and undergraduates at Princeton and Yale.

Said meddlesome newspaper colyumists, in substance: "What if the fellowship student should be the one who carries the pigskin across the orange-and-black goal-line just before the final whistle blows?"