New Haven, Conn., Feb. 16, 1914.

The Yale Baseball Association held its first meeting of candidates for the team on Tuesday, 38 men reporting. The policy has been followed this year, as was last year inaugurated by Coach Quimby, that of announcing the university squad before practice begins, and of having these men only report for winter practice. An opportunity will be given, however, to all those who wish to try for the university team to do so later on in the month. Seven members of last year's regular team are in college this year, and will be eligible for the team this spring. The baseball schedule for this spring comprises 27 regular games. The season will open with a southern trip of five games, the first being played in Norfolk, Va., on April 9.

Cornell was defeated in hockey on Saturday by the score of 3 to 1. Yale lost to Cornell in basketball by the score of 40 to 26, but won from Lehigh with an easy margin of 14 points. During the week the freshman hockey team defeated Taft School and New Rochelle High School, the former by the score of 4 to 2, the latter by the score of 8 to 0. The swimming team was victorious over Columbia on Friday evening.

Rules for Awarding of Letter.

At a meeting of the Athletic Association held on Monday, the rules for wearing athletic insignia were revised. Hereafter, the university "Y", will be awarded to men who win fifth place in the intercollegiate games. A change was also made in regard to the jerseys for track men, by which a competitor in the Princeton meet is awarded an "AYA" jersey. Heretofore, only men competing in the intercollegiates or the Harvard meet were allowed to have them. Another rule is to the effect that men on minor teams have no right to wear hats with the insignia of their teams on them.

Interest in affairs that fall without the pale of athletics has been centered during the past week on annual elections to the Sheff. societies and fraternities. "Rushing" has continued since February 6, and the first "hold-offs" were given to members of the Sheff. freshman class on Friday night. Election will continue to be made during the next few weeks, and the final results announced in April.

New Idea In Competition.

The News has instituted a new plan this year with reference to the selection of an advertising representative. A competition will be held open to all members of the freshman class who are in need of financial aid. The winner will receive a salary for sophomore, junior and senior years, but will not be a regular member of the News board. It has been announced that the annual banquet of the News board will be held in the Hotel Taft on March 6.

For those interested in music, the announcement that a series of three operas will be given in New Haven shortly by the Boston Opera Company is of particular interest. The first of these performances will take place on February 24, the "Tales of Hoffman" being the opera selected for that date. The other two operas are "Hansel and Gretel," and "Tosca," which are to be given in the afternoon and evening respectively of March 24. Mme. Melba of the Metropolitan Opera Company will probably be one of the singers, although the full orchestras, chorus, corps de ballet and scenery will be brought from the Boston House.

Professor Francke to Lecture.

Among the interesting lectures that took place during the past week have been Dr. William Hornaday's lectures on "Our Animal Life and Our Duty Toward It," Mr. J. R. Crawford's lectures on the "Modern English Drama," and the second Trowbridge lecture, delivered Saturday night by Professor Clay, on "Assyrian and Babylonian Art." Among the lectures of importance that have been arranged for the coming week are the first two lectures by Professor Von Der Leyen, the German Exchange Professor from the University of Munich, who is to deliver a series on the "Niebelungen Ring." Professor Kuno Francke, head of the Harvard German Faculty, is to deliver lectures at Yale in the near future under the auspices of "The Deutsche Vereingun."

The university registration statistics, as announced in the university catalogue, just publshed, show that at present, there are 3,268 students in Yale. Nineteen countries and 52 states and territories are represented. The total number of officers in the university is 581, a gain of 42 over last year. These members of the faculty include 113 professors, 89 assistant professors, 145 instructors and lecturers, 90 assistants in instruction and 124 assistants in administration.