The University should have a strong swimming team this year, for not a single member of the 1915 team has been lost by graduation, and a large number of candidates are practicing for the coming meets. Some excellent material is available this season, and several graduates are devoting their time to teaching the swimmers at the practice in the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank at Central square.

The sport of swimming has been maintained with difficulty in the athletic curriculum of the University because of inadequate facilities. A home swimming pool has long been needed. Swimming was entirely abolished as a sport in the University in 1910, but a team was again organized when the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank was constructed.

Last year the team won six meets and lost two, and the prospects for this year are so promising that a meet has been arranged with Yale to be held at New Haven on March 13. The last time the University met the Yale swimmers was in February, 1913. Yale had an experienced team last season and won the championship, but has lost eight veterans this year through graduation, and several prospective members of the team have been declared ineligible. Much new material will, therefore, have to be developed for the 1916 team. The University's record last year and the uncertain prospects at New Haven make the former's chances for defeating Yale this spring very good.

Seven meets are on the schedule before that of March 13, and all will be away from Cambridge. The first is with Worcester Academy at Worcester on February 12. A week later, the team will go to Princeton, another new opponent in swimming. On February 22 it will meet Columbia at New York, and on the 26th Wesleyan at Middletown, Conn. A meet is scheduled with Andover for March 1. The Springfield swimmers will oppose the University in that city on March 4, and the Amherst team will come to Boston on March 11. Two days later the meet with Yale will be held in New Haven. Teams on the schedule last year not included in this one are City College of New York, Brown, Cornell, and Technology.

Many experienced swimmers will be eligible for the University team this year. T. T. Seelye '18, captain of his Freshman team, W. C. Hitchcock '18, also a member of the 1918 team, and H. Wentworth '17, one of the University swimmers last year, will be available. In the sprints, these three men are likely to be picked, besides Captain B. M. Fullerton '16. But the following men are also good swimmers in the sprints: A. S. Francis '18, of last year's Freshman team; J. A. Machado '17 and J. W. D. Seymour '17, both University swimmers last year. The divers are K. F. Jackson '17, W. L. Munro. Jr. '16, and M. Blanchard '18, amateur diving champion of New England. The best plungers are A. Dixon, 3d '16, and A. L. Richmond '18.