THERE are two ways of looking at the part which the graduates have lately played in regard to our connection with the Rowing Association. For the interest they showed in our boating affairs and for the advice which they gave us, they are entitled to thanks. It is due to them, we may say entirely, that we have decided to row at Saratoga next summer, and because we have adopted this course we are pronounced by the outside world to have acted in a fair and straightforward manner. If we had severed immediately our connection with the Association, we should ourselves have felt satisfied that we were perfectly justified in our action; but as the general public would never have properly understood our motives, it is as well, perhaps, that we took a course which will not bring adverse criticism upon the College. Looking at the matter in this light, we should be grateful to the graduates for what they have done.

But their action has been regarded by some from another standpoint. It has been said that when they formed and supported crews they managed the boating affairs of the College, while at present we who are now undergraduates send crews and support them; and it is therefore claimed that the management of the boating interests should be intrusted solely to us. There is certainly some force in these arguments, but it is in the power of the graduates to deprive them of their force. The support of the crew is a burden which the undergraduates are very ready to share with the graduates, and the experience of those who have been here before us would undoubtedly be of benefit to our boating interests. The Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. would do well to consider, with a view to its adoption here, a plan which is in operation at Columbia, by which a graduate who subscribes annually to the crew is entitled to a vote at boating meetings and to certain other privileges.