THE proposed American Henley now seems likely to receive a trial under very favorable circumstances next July. The letters which we have published from "A Yale Graduate of '69" have given a very full account of the project and its claims to the support of college oarsmen. We regret that it seems impossible for Harvard to take any part in this regatta this year, but hope that the question of entering a crew will be carefully considered next year after the experiment has been tried for the first time. We should not desire to see anything interfere with the annual race with Yale, but if a crew could be entered without doing this it might be worth while. Although Harvard and Yale send no crews to the regatta this year, Columbia and Cornell will each be represented by an eight and a four, and Princeton, Bowdoin, and Wesleyan will also send crews. There are certainly great advantages in having a regatta of this sort under competent management, and from all that we can learn the N. A. A. O. can supply this management. There is one thing to be considered, however, in entering any but a University crew in such a race, that any defeat for it will be considered a defeat of the University. There are many people who cannot understand that it was a Freshman, and not a University crew, that was beaten at Owasco Lake last summer.