Hard work and plenty of it has characterized the practice of the university football squad during the past week. Eight or ten coaches have been on the field every day and the scrimmage work has been hard and long. Shevlin was moved back to his old position at left end on Monday. Who will take his place at fullback has not been definitely decided upon. Bowman, Owsley, and McCoy are the most likely candidates at present. Secret practice began last Wednesday, no one being admitted to the field until 3.30 o'clock. Although the game with West Point was expected to be a hard contest, every one believed that the Yale team would come out victorious, and the defeat was a great surprise. The Yale Alumni Weekly will have charge of the ticket distribution for the Harvard game. Undergraduate applications began last Monday.

The University Debating Association has moved into its new quarters in Lampson Hall. The Yale and Freshman Unions have both elected officers and organized for the year. The question for the Yale-Princeton debate, now in the hands of a committee, will be submitted Friday.

The annual fall tennis tournament, which began last Friday, has been continued all week and has progressed as far as the fourth round. There were about sixty entries.

Not to be outdone by the Republicans, the Democrats of the university have organized a Democratic Club and elected officers.

The make-up of the Mandolin Club has been announced and includes about thirty men. The Glee, Mandolin and Banjo Clubs are practicing nightly.

The annual fall regatta was held on Saturday at Lake Whitney, over the usual five-sixths of a mile course. Eight crews took part: four freshman crews, two academic and two Sheffield, and two from each of the classes of 1906 and 1907. The junior crew broke the record for the course in one of the prettiest races seen at Lake Whitney in a long time. The time was 4m. 47 4-5s., lowering the previous record by one-fifth of a second. The day was an ideal one, and, with the exception of a slight breeze blowing up the course, which made the time of the junior crew even more remarkable, the weather contions for rowing were perfect. A large crowd lined the banks of the lake and the sides of the first bridge. The races were very closely contested and exciting throughout. In but one instance was there open water between the shells. The freshman club race was won by the academic boat while the Sheffield freshmen won the first crew contest. Contrary to former custom the university crew did not give an exhibition row, as the men were used in the class crews.