SINCE the summer of 1876 there has been no single-scull race for a championship of two or more American colleges. The interest in boating at Yale and Harvard has been concentrated on the eight-oars, and little or nothing has been said about singles. But now there promises to be a revival of the championship races, and this the H. U. B. C. ought to encourage.

The following letter was received from Mr. Livingston, a brother of Mr. Herman Livingston, of the Yale Crew, on May 20 : -

MR. W. N. GODDARD.

DEAR SIR, - I hereby challenge you to a two-mile straight-away single-scull race on some neutral waters, time and place to be hereafter determined. New London, and Wednesday, June 5, preferred.

NEW HAVEN, May 19, 1878.

To this Mr. Goddard wrote the following reply : -

NEW YORK, May 21, 1878

MR. E. P. LIVINGSTON.

I was suddenly called away, and have not had time until now to reply to yours of the 19th inst., containing a challenge to me to row you a private race.

I must decline your challenge, appreciating, however, the compliment; but will here say that I am quite ready, if my college is challenged and wishes me to row, to do so for the championship of the two colleges. I am respectfully yours,

No answer to this communication has been received from New Haven, and the Yale Navy apparently have taken no action in the matter; but it is certainly a desirable thing to have a single-scull race for the championship of the two colleges, and there could be no better time for it than the week of the University race at New London. If any decision in this matter is to be reached this summer it ought to be made at once, to enable the contestants to make the necessary preparations. As Mr. Livingston has taken the first step, it is only fair for his college to support him, and we understand that if a formal challenge is received from Yale it will be favorably considered by the H. U. B. C.