WE call attention to an article in another column in which a contributor discusses the advisability of the Freshmen rowing races with other Freshmen crews. The writer seems to us to prove successfully that the advantages of such races do not offset the expense incurred in carrying them out, and that now that class races afford ample opportunity for initiating Freshmen in rowing, the necessity of meeting outsiders for the purpose of practice in racing is almost wholly done away with. We are aware that the advocates of outside contests urge that the more experience a man has in racing the better he will be fitted for University Crew work, but we think that too much stress is apt to be laid on this point. Apart from its great expense, no Freshman race of the past few years has been so arranged as to draw many spectators. It is natural and fitting that the University Race with Yale should absorb almost all the enthusiasm of the persons in and out of College who are interested in rowing, and it must nearly always happen, as was the case last year, that the Freshmen will row to very small audiences. With the increased expense of the launch, the cost of maintaining the University Crew is considerably augmented; and, as our contributor points out, the Freshman Class might transfer the bulk of their subscriptions from their class crew to the 'Varsity, if they rowed no intercollegiate race. At any rate, whatever the advantages in Freshman races as regards rowing are, the disadvantages of leaving a large debt reflect immediately on the College at large, and do much to injure its credit among strangers.