THE refusal of the Yale Freshmen to row our Freshman class next summer is not to be seriously regretted. The prospect of such a race serves, of course, to draw out the Freshmen able to row, and the existence of a good Freshman crew is in a measure a training-school for future University oars. On the other hand, the Freshman race interferes with the University race. Now that we are entering on a series of races with Yale, and with Yale alone, all interfering objects should be set aside. The duel between the principals should take place without minor contests between the seconds. The two colleges will contend next spring in foot-ball, and in the summer the University nines and University crews will try the tug of war together. This should be enough. For the past two years the matches between the Freshman nines of the two colleges have amounted to nothing, and the Freshman race has only made another delay at Saratoga.