NEW HAVEN, CONN., May 23. - The Yale campus was crowded this afternoon with spectators and students to witness the annual "slapping" of the lucky candidates for elections to the senior societies. Each present member of the societies wended his way through the crowd, found the candidate he sought and tapped him on the back, as the crowd cheered for the successful man.

Skull and Bones - A. P. Stokes, Jr., New York; M. C. D. McKee, Washington; Maitland Griggs, Hartford; Wm. M. Beard, Poughkeepsie; Ward Cheney, South Manchester, Conn.; Alexander Brown, Philadelphia; Samuel Thorne, New York; J. H. DeSibour, Washington; Edward L. Trudeau, Saranac Lake, N. Y.; R. B. Treadway, Sioux City, Iowa; F. A. Weyerbauser, St. Paul; W. R. Smith, New York; Brinkerhoff Thorne, New York; James Neale, Kittanning, Pa., and W. R. Cross, New York.

Scroll and Keys - G. H. Nettleton, Boston; George Z. Gray, New York; W. S. Hoyt, Stamford; Norman Williams, Chicago; Clarence DeWitt, Hartford; H. H. Benedict, New Haven; Clarence Day, New York; Edgar C. Lackland, St. Louis; Russell Colgate, Orange, N. J.; A. G. C. Sage, Ithaca, N. Y.; W. S. Miller, Chicago; Elliot Sumner, New Haven; L. P. Sheldon, Rutland, Vt.; Harry J. Fisher, New York, and A. E. Foote, New Haven.

Wolf's Head - W. P. Parrett, South Orange, N. J.; Walter Haven Clark, Hartford; E. D. Alexander, New Brighton, N. Y.; C. F. Mackey, Franklin, Pa.; Howland Twombly, Newton, Mass; P. C. Peck, Hudson, N. Y.; A. L. Curtiss, New York; J. F. Eagle, Brooklyn; J. H. Knapp, Norwalk; F. C. Lee, Port of Spain, Trinidad; W. B. Ford, Detroit; Thomas F. Archbald, Scranton, Pa.; George X. McLanahan, Washington, D. C.; Alexander S. Cochran, New York, and Alfred H. Bello, Dallas, Texas.