It now appears practically settled that the undergraduate rule which during the past few months the managers and captains of the Yale Athletic teams have been endeavoring to put in force, will be finally dropped. For two months, owing to a compromise between the supporters of the rule and their opponents, the matter has been quiet. A committee of twelve representative men of the university was appointed to draw up new constitutions and report on May 1.

A number of unsatisfactory meetings were held at the time appointed. The committee was not ready to report and asked for more time. Last Friday night, the limit for the postponement, the committee submitted a constitution so changed as to be totally unlike the undergraduate regulations. The report will be submitted to the university for ratification next Wednesday night when a mass meeting will be called to take action on the matter. The new rule as yet has not yet been disclosed, but one of the managers said its provisions were almost identical with those adopted by Harvard about three months ago. The result of the rule will be that uniformity will be introduced into all systems of Yale athletics, and the same rules will govern the membership qualifications in all of them. But the foot ball association will be left free to continue or to discontinue the rule next season if it likes.