Yale Letter.

At last the question of the new base-ball league has been settled to the satisfaction and advantage, let us hope, of all parties. Yale's attitude all along has been little understood by the outside world, and in consequence many untrue charges have been laid at our door. The base-ball management and the University, in spite of these charges to the contrary, have been honest in all their negotiations and decisions. Yale has simply taken the ground that the question of withdrawing from a league which embodied many pleasant relations and which had its advantages, and forming another league, was a question of vital importance, and one which should not have a hasty decision. As matters have finally been decided and arranged there is every reason to anticipate a most prosperous season for the new league, in which the standard of college ball playing will be advanced in no small degree and all the games will be closer and more interesting.

The ninth annual winter games of the Yale Athletic Association were held week before last and were universally pronounced by far the most successful ever given by the association. Three Yale records were broken, the running high jump by one inch, the pole vault by one inch and a quarter, and the high-kick by two inches, the latter being only two inches less than the world's record. The sparring and wrestling contests were a great improvement over those of last year, and the whole meeting reflected great credit on the management and contestants.

Track athletics have received another stimulus by the presentation of two challenge cups to the athletic association by Mr. Edward Porter, '81, Sheffield, to be competed for in the spring meeting, one in the quarter, the other in the mile run.

Somewhat of a sensation was created in the University by the announcement of the formation of a secret society in the Law School. A chapter of Phi Delta Phi has been established, to be known as the Waite Chapter, in honor of Chief Justice M. R. Waite, '37. The fraternity is confined to the legal profession, and its purpose is to assist its members towards success in business,

The following members of '88 will be entitled to speak for the Junior Exhibition Prize, which will be contested for on March 31: Lawrence J. Carmalt, Irving Fisher, George B. Fowler, Eugene W. Harten, Orland S. Isbell, Fred. P. Solley, Henry L. Stimson and Frank L. Woodward.

YALE NEWS.