The outlook for a strong football team next year is not very bright. Of the thirteen men who played against Harvard and Princeton, six will be lost by graduation and there does not appear to be any good substitute material which may be developed to fill their places. The most discouraging feature of this situation is that four of those six are line men and they will leave gaps hard to fill. The backfield will be practically intact.

Sixty-eight candidates reported for the university hockey team. Training has started with outdoor running, and practice on the ice will be held as soon as the weather permits. Only two men of last year's team and substitutes have graduated, and, with the large squad, the prospects are for a strong team.

Last year Yale was unusually strong in track athletics, but many of the surest point winners have graduated, and this year opens with many important places vacant. Much is expected of the freshmen, although few were out for fall work.

The university crew squad will be called out about a week after the winter term opens. There are six men still in college from last year's crew and two men from the four-oar. About 125 men reported this year for the freshman squad and work will be started immediately after the Christmas vacation.

Fifty-five men are now practicing for the university basketball team. The first game of the schedule was played in Newport on December 2.

Director Chittenden has become treasurer of the Board of Sheffield Trustees in place of ex-Director Brush.

A valuable collection of minerals and a scientific library have been presented to the Sheffield Scientific School by J. G. Brush, late director of the institution. The value of the entire donation is estimated at $40,000.

The judges for the Yale-Princeton debate, which will be held on December 6 have been chosen. Professor John Bassett Moore of Columbia. Mr. A. Maurice Low, the Washington correspondent and Hon. Lucius F. C. Garvin, Governor of Rhode Island, have consented to act.

Practice for the water polo team began last week. During the Easter vacation the team will go on its western trip, playing games at Chicago, St. Louis, Madison (with the University of Wisconsin), Pittsburg and Buffalo.

The first half of the annual Y and freshman numeral contests will be held in the gymnasium on Wednesday, December 7.

The senior class of the Forestry School has started on the annual trip through the woods from Maine to Florida. The entire class will attend the American Forestry Congress, to be held at Washington, January 2.