Yesterday afternoon in the New Indoor Athletic Building the University basketball squad met to begin the first half of its winter season, lasting until the midyear examination period, during which, contrary to the usual custom among eastern colleges, there is to be no practice.

Facing a strong team from Vermont on Saturday, the first two days are to be devoted to drill in handling the ball, and to speeding up the passing, which the recent game with C. C. N. Y. revealed as sluggish. A day will then be devoted to defense work, another on the offense, leaving Friday open for light scrimmage.

Coach Wachter expressed his satisfaction at the showing which the team made during its brief trip to New York, since it was able to hold its own against two of the strongest teams in the east. He was particularly pleased by the game with C. C. N. Y. which boasts a basketball machine which has been at work since the beginning of the football season.

Today intramural basketball, under the direction of A. W. Samborski '26, will get under way, with candidates for the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior squads reporting to Coach J. J. Hill, of the University of Kansas, on the top floor of the New Indoor Athletic Building.

In addition to the inter-class series, there will be games with outside schools, and probably with a House team: a Dunster-Lowell game will be scheduled later in the season. The first game of the class schedule will be Tuesday, January 13, the Junior team against the Seniors, with a Sophomore-Senior combat on the following Thursday.