THE YALE LETTER.

NEW HAVEN, Oct. 5, 1896.

The college year is now well under way with the candidates for the football and track athletic teams hard at work. The fall meeting of the Yale Athletic Association will be held on the last day of this month, and will include thirteen events. The opening home game with Amherst on Wednesday, showed ragged work and a lack of team play. In the second half a large number of the new men were tried. The following officers for the Freshman Football Association have been elected: President, Ogleby '00; vice-president, Eddy '99, S.; secretary and treasurer, Cheney '00; assistant secretary and treasurer, Lowndes '99, S.

A mass meeting of all men in the Academic and Scientific departments was held last Monday evening for the purpose of organizing a Sound Money Club. A committee was appointed to confer with similar committees to be elected from the graduate schools of the university later.

The Rev. John Watson, D.D., of Liverpool, is giving a course of lectures before the Divinity School, which are being very generally attended by members of the university. Dr. Watson also preached in the college chapel yesterday and he has created great interest here.

The fifteenth annual intercollegiate tennis tournament will begin tomorrow on the grounds of the New Haven Lawn Club. The intercollegiate cups now held by Malcolm G. Chace of Yale, will be contested for.

The Medical and Art Schools opened last Thursday. The curriculum in the former has been lengthened to four years. A Fellowship Prize is offered in the Art School this year for the first time, a prize which will send the successful student to Paris for two years of study.

The university faculty has received applications from more than one hundred teachers of the state for membership in the teachers' course which was opened last Saturday. Yale is the first eastern university to adopt such a course.

THE YALE NEWS.