IN the first number of this volume of the Crimson we expressed the opinion that Harvard could not honorably withdraw from the Rowing Association of American Colleges. We still think that at the time we had no cause to justify our leaving the Association, but the action of the convention which met at Springfield last week leaves us to choose now between two disagreeable alternatives. We must either submit to seeing questions of the greatest importance in regard to intercollegiate rowing decided according to the expense they involve, rather than the advantages or disadvantages they would cause; we must suffer the minority of the college world to drag the majority along by the nose; we must subscribe to measures which common-sense tells us are absurd; or we must leave the Association. The question is now, Which of these evils is the less? The Executive Committee, upon the advice of our delegates to the late convention, have decided to call a meeting of all the members of the H. U. B. C., and submit this question to them. It is of the greatest importance that every one should fully understand all the bearings of the question before the meeting takes place, in order that action may not be hastily or unadvisably taken.