WHAT may be called the legislative period of our boating system is drawing to a close, and hereafter we shall have but to chronicle its practical workings. The past week has seen the completion of a new boat-house, with bridge, float, and necessary appurtenances. The new house joins the old. The lower story is spacious enough to accommodate all the club boats, and each club has a range of rests for itself. The upper story will eventually be partitioned for dressing-rooms. And now the crews are commencing work which will decide whether the handkerchiefs at the front shall be light blue or crimson, dark blue or orange and black. Two races are expected before the season closes; one of them to be for the graduates' cup. This prize, by permission of the donors, is to be offered in the future for club races. It is a great improvement that coxswains are to be used. Not only will this insure a clear race, but we shall be spared the mournful story of each defeated bow-oarsman, barred from victory by only a broken wire or twisted outrigger. It may not be idle to hope that the fouls of our next intercollegiate regatta will be avoided by this same means.