The preliminary stir of spring activities furnished the tone to the past week at Harvard.

The entire University resumed the regular routine of classes on Monday after the three weeks examination period, and now scholastic work for the closing half of the college year is in full stride.

With a meeting of 250 crew candidates on Monday, Coach E. A. Stevens' regime began its spring drive to establish a successful crew system at the University. Work on the machines and conditioning exercises are the order of the day. Two days later Captain K. S. Pfaffmann '24 opened the 1924 tennis season and a squad of 10 picked men began practicing at the Longwood covered courts in Boston. CRIMSON, Advocate, and Sophomore Blue Book competitions have been announced, and debating is under way. The annual inter-class debate series, in which limitation of enrolment in Harvard was overruled, resulted in the award of the college championship to the class of 1926.

At the same time winter activities have not been neglected. The hockey team is struggling in an unexpected slump. In the first game of the Yale series last Saturday, the Crimson forwards seldom penetrated even the outer bulwarks of the Bulldog defense, and the three Yale shots which escaped the University goal tender's attention proved enough to set the Blue's undertaker dirge reverberating in the rafters of the Arena. Again on Wednesday, a smooth functioning B. A. A. sextet rained shots on the University cage, and piled up an 8 to 1 victory. Hodder's absence from play, on account of a broken wrist sustained in practice, crippled the team.

In its two games this week, the basketball team's showing has lacked little but the capacity to win in a pinch. Twice, against Dartmouth and Pennsylvania, the Crimson, displaying improved form, fought an Intercollegiate League five on even terms and lost in the closing moments of the game, 34 to 25 to the Green, and 26 to 24 to the Red and Blue.

In the field of undergraduate politics, the week has been the nomination of 1937 class officers and the election of a new group of Phillips Brooks House officers. In the latter, B. F. Rice-Bassett '25 of New York City, president; Gardner Cowles Jr. '26 of Des Moines, lowa, vice-president; J. J. Maher '26 of Bridgeport, Coun., secretary; R. R. Field '26 of Phillips, Maine, treasurer; and G. D. Debevoise '26 of New York City, librarian, will lead the organization in 1924-25.

The Student Council's Committee on Freshman Affairs has nominated the following for 1927 officers; C. D. Coady of West Newton and L. F. Daley of Andover for president. Nathaniel Hamlen of Boston and C. I. Paulsen of Spokane, Wash., for vice-president, J. R. Burke of Milton and Austin Lamont of Engle wood, N. J., for secretary treasurer, and C. S. Gross of West Newton, R. S. Scott of Wellesley, and Isadore Zarakov of Cambridge for Student Council member.

The Athletic Committee met Thursday. The recommendation for the reappointment of R. T. Fisher '12 as head coach, the award of track "H's" to the winning B. A. A. relay team and to three Sophomores who participated in the Oxford-Cambridge meet last summer, and the award of a straight golf "H" to R. T. Jones '24 for winning the National Open Championship featured the proceedings.

The announced intention of Dr. R. I. Lee '02, professor of Hygiene to resign at the close of the year has aroused expressions of regret from Dean Briggs and many others in the University.