The Yale News states that there is some prospect of the formation of a canoe club at New Haven this spring, and in commending the project it says: "There are canoes enough in college, but any sport to be enjoyable must be companionable, and it is not strange that the old individual style of canoeing fails to arouse a lasting-interest. Recent experiments and improvements in canoe sailing have introduced an entirely new phase of the sport, and removed a vast deal of unnecessary labor. We hear every summer of the pleasant cruises of countless clubs, yet nothing has ever been done here to inaugurate such a movement." Such considerations as these would apply with equal force at Harvard. There are many reasons why there should be a canoe club here; canoeing is emphatically a college sport; more than twenty years ago it flourished at Oxford and Cambridge, and, like many other sports, has since become extended to the world of amateurs everywhere. The Charles river offers excellent opportunities for the prosecution of the pastime among us; and the many rivers and lakes of New England afford unequalled chances for enjoyable cruises to companies of canoeists. A formally organized club could do much for the promotion of this ideal pastime at Harvard, and, if organized, would doubtless receive many members. The only objection to it which could be made might be that it would detract, possibly, from the interest in sports longer established. But many men whose time is not occupied in any other form of athletics, might be induced to favor this form, while there need be no necessity of drawing off those who are already engaged. The status of such a club would, probably, have to be something like that of the Bicycle Club. It might organize occasional races and cruises; and the recent improvements made in the sailing canoe might make it possible to hold regattas of considerable interest. Thus, although a Harvard Yacht Club may be altogether impracticable and undesirable, canoe sailing might become a pleasant form of spring and fall recreation with us.