THE Senior class crew, after several meetings, finds no captain of its choice who is willing, under the circumstances, to take the office. Although the crew suffer greatly in the loss of stroke oarsman, the real difficulty at present lies in the unwillingness of several members to row again this year. The entire matter has been wisely referred to a meeting of the whole class. A point arises here which has before been urged in these columns, - the advisability of setting the day for the class races a week earlier than heretofore. The reasons for such a change are stronger than any arguments on the other side. The apprehensions, every year, of one class or another that its chances will be greatly improved by one week more of practice for its crew exaggerates the benefit that can thus be derived. Moreover, the marked progress always made by a progressing crew in the last week is due to the nearness of the race. It would be as marked if the race came earlier; the week lost would be found to be one of the earlier ones in which little was done. On the other hand, the class races have been made of too much account, and impose too great sacrifice upon the members of the crews. There is danger that our rowing interests here at home may fall under their own weight. Every one remarked the success in every desirable particular which attended the scratch races last fall. Let not the class races depart too far from that one extreme, and approach the other, where the exactions may be equal to those at tending a race with Yale or Columbia. To set the race early, at least four weeks before the final examinations begin, is the least the Boat Club should do. Rivalry between the classes is sure, even then, to secure from the oarsmen the utmost limit of devotion that may safely be accorded to any of our home athletics. The Senior class, since Commencement is near, and their work cannot be slighted, will usually more than others be desirous of an early day; but there is the same slighting on the part of other oarsmen. We hope the rowing men in '83 will find themselves able to make the sacrifice sufficient to enter the race, although the class will probably in any event not allow itself to be unrepresented. While the Senior class at Yale does not enter a crew in the spring races, the introduction of such a custom here would, it seems to us, be deplorable.