THE Advocate's attack on the Executive Committee seems a little ill-timed, when we reflect that the action of that committee was indorsed by a boating meeting, and when their reasons for "procrastination" are known by most men in college. It does not seem so difficult to apprehend why the Executive Committee should hesitate to bind the College to a race with Cornell, at present our most doughty adversary, when they foresaw as possible what has now happened. We are at a loss to know to whom the term "boating representatives" applies; if by it are meant the crew, we think the Advocate fails to appreciate their feelings, for their withdrawal from the boat now is not "fickleness." If the Advocate refers to the Executive Committee it shows an ignorance of the delicate business they had in hand. The only fault that can be found with the Executive Committee is their delay in sending a private letter to Cornell explaining our position. To have made public the many complications with which they were at the time embarrassed would have been making matters worse, and we do not think they are to blame for keeping silent until they had arrived at some definite decision among themselves.