DEPARTURE OF TRACK TEAM.

The University track team leaves Cambridge today for the Yale dual meet at New Haven, the first contest for the possession of the new nine-year cup offered by graduates of the two institutions. The situation in regard to the meet is analogous to the circumstances which attended the football game last fall. Yale started the year with a corps of veterans, while the Harvard coaches began their work with a squad for the most part untried in intercollegiate contests. No point winners of last year's team remain in seven events, while Yale will be well supported in all but one by men who won places last spring. The excellent work which Captain Rand and Coaches Donovan and Quinn have done in developing the team has been demonstrated by its performances in the interclass games and in the meet last Saturday, when it defeated Dartmouth by 67 points. It is a question whether a steadily and rapidly improving team can overtake and defeat a team originally composed of tried men, which has rather fallen off than otherwise during the season's training. A careful computation of the probable results seems slightly to favor Yale, but the victory will turn with the few doubtful points that hang in the balance.

We are sorry that such a close and exciting contest as this promises to be is going to be held away from Cambridge, but we assure the members of the team that the best wishes of the University go with them today. If there is any truth in telepathy, they will certainly be urged on by the cheers given for them on Soldiers Field tomorrow, afternoon.