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Show I ho Cornclliao counc il, whoso purposo shall be to promote systematic donations dona-tions U the university on the part of alumni. The movement was start ed last fnll but the organisation was not perfected until yesterday when a meeting was held or the Cornell alumni alum-ni in this city. In a nutshell, tho plan Is to Induce every alumnus, or former student to Rive a stated sum to hl3 Alma Mater each year. This is similar sim-ilar in a general way to the plan In vogue in rrlnceton, Yale and Harvard. Har-vard. According to the preliminary arrangements ar-rangements of tho Cornolllans, tho council shall bo composed of fifty members, ten at large and one appointed ap-pointed from each of the last forty classes. Each year, the newest class nemos a member who displaces the. member from th oldest class. The terras of offico are for five years and the members are appointed by classes at r-ach of their five-year reunions. There is to be a paid secretary to do the soliciting. This work will bo sup-en sup-en Ised by an executive committee of fivo members. Princeton's systematic giving In tho last four years has totalled more than $3,000,000 and as Princeton has approximately ap-proximately 8,000 graduates, or former form-er students, while Cornell has 18,000 or more, the Cornelllaus are sanguine san-guine as to the result of their project. It Is honed to ralso at least $5i,000 in the first year. WESTERN THEATER MANAGERS .DECLARE OPEN-DOOR POLICY New York, April ) 7. Theatrical managers In this city were formally notified last night by their western representatives that the WoBtom The-titer The-titer Managers' association had declared de-clared an "open-door" policy, and would no longer bind its houses to auy producer, booking association or syndicate. syn-dicate. About one hundred and seventy-five l theaters arc affected by the move, j |