The regulations governing activities of clubs this fall in regard to canvassing Freshmen and pledging Sophomores were announced recently by the Graduate Advisory Committee.

Since 1914 the undergraduate clubs have agreed that their members will not canvass members of the Freshman class and that they will not elect any undergraduate before the fourth Monday after the opening of College in his Sophomore year, and that no pledge or promise from any Sophomore shall be accepted before the Friday following the fourth Monday.

The Graduate Advisory Committee has fixed October 19 as the fourth Monday after the beginning of the College year for the purposes of the agreement.

Attention is called to the following votes heretofore adopted by the Advisory Committee:

"Whereas under the Club Agreement, among the practices prohibited under the head of 'canvassing' is that of notifying any undergraduate 'indirectly' that he is, or is not, under consideration as a future member of any club;

"And, whereas, it is desirable in the opinion of the Committee to define the meaning of this restriction more definitely.

"Now, therefore, voted: It is the sense of this Committee that this restriction will be violated, if a club member, or members, cultivate the acquaintance of any undergraduate before the opening of his Sophomore year with such persistance as to indicate to him that he is under consideration as a future member of the club to which said club member, or members, belong.

"Voted--That unclassified students and dropped Freshmen should be regarded as Sophomores under the agreement."

The following is the full text of the agreement.

Canvassing

1. Canvassing is here defined as "reading" or speaking or making to any undergraduate any statement or presentation about any club, or notifying him directly or indirectly that he is or is not under consideration as a future member of any club.

2. Each club shall prohibit its undergraduate members and its members-elect, meaning thereby persons notified of their election but not yet initiated, from canvassing any undergraduate before the opening of College in his Sophomore year.

3. Each club shall request its graduate members to consider it a point of honor not to canvass any undergraduate in any way before the opening of College in his Sophomore year.

Pledging

4. No pledge or promise shall be accepted or taken from any undergraduate before the Friday following the fourth Monday after the opening of College in his Sophomore year by a club or by any member thereof to the effect that he will join any club or that he will not join any other club, and any such pledge or promise, whether originating in misunderstanding or otherwise, shall not be binding upon such undergraduates or upon any of the said clubs agreeing thereto, but shall be regarded by everybody as null and void and contrary to the spirit of this agreement.