Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1901 — People and Events [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

People and Events

Queerest of Men’s Clubs.

The most unique of men’s clubs has recently been organized at the University of Pennsylvania. Its membership

is regulated not by blackballs, but by a foot rule; No man can be elected a member unless he 'stands at least 6 feet in his stockings. Furthermore, the membership of the club is limited to eighty feet. That Is, if the aggregate height of the club members x reaches

that figure the club is filled, and other applicants must wait, unless under the foot rule they prove to be taller than the shortest man who is already a club member. In that case, the giant la taken into the club, and the comparative dwarf retires to an associate membership. In all matters which come before the club for action each member has one vote for each inch he stapds above six feet in height. To amend the constitution of the club requires fifty-four feet, or two-thirds of the active membership of eighty feet, in Its favor. The founder of this club of giants is John R. Maris of Chestnut Hill, Pa., who height. The club’s tallest member is Montgomery, a boy of 6 feet 10 inches. At the next annual meeting of officers of the club he expects to be chosen Supreme Skyscraper.

John R. Maris.