THE request tendered to Harvard by Trinity, Amherst, Dartmouth, and Williams, to aid in forming a new Boating Association, we cannot entertain. In leaving the American Association we signified as our reasons for so doing, that we wished to be represented in future by an eight-oared crew, and that the number of boats contesting decreased the pleasure and interest in the Association races. The objection to the new association is not only the inconvenient number of contesting boats, but they will row in sixes if not in fours. Had the persons who have the project in hand considered Harvard's position in even a cursory manner, they must have foreseen that we could only say no to their request. The necessity for a New England Rowing Association is itself rather obscure. All the colleges desirous of forming it already belong to, and have rowed in, the American Association, and consequently have an opportunity to race each other every year. The only apparent reason for this movement is one not at all to the credit of its promoters. It looks very much as if the intention was to exclude Cornell and Columbia (who have lately so distinguished themselves) from an opportunity of again beating the members of the future New England Rowing Association. We submit to the careful perusal of the new association a letter which may be found in our correspondence column, and which we think suits their case most admirably.