Eligibility Rules at U. of P.

PHILADELPHIA, PA., Sept. 30.- The participation of the University of Pennsylvania students in athletic contests will hereafter be under closer supervision and stricter rules than now prevail at any institution of learning.

The University Athletic Club has adopted a new code of eligibility, according to which no student will be allowed to play on a 'varsity team, or even practice for it, if he has been dropped from one class to a lower class, or if he has changed from one department to another without first standing a satisfactory examination. Candidates for the 'varsity crew will be required to pass preliminary examinations before May 1, and a candidate who receives more than one condition will be barred, except that if he receive only two conditions he may try examinations again in June. These regulations will effectively shut out men who come to the university mainly for the sake of sports.