Harvard has challenged us to a four-mile race next summer, and we have accepted. Therefore, the difficulty of last summer is practically settled. We shall not trump up old issues and argue as to the advisability of having accepted this challenge, but since the die has been cast and the crew pledged to row, we call on every man to lay aside personal prejudice and to support the crew to the best of his ability. Many men are probably not satisfied that Harvard has made due reparation in sending a challenge without an accompanying apology. They therefore deem it unworthy of our dignity to row the Cambridge crew, and are loath to countenance the race by their support. For the benefit of these we shall attempt to explain matters. Columbia holds one view of the late difficulty, Harvard another. We hold that the Harvard crew and the boat club, by its subsequent action, were entirely in the wrong, and that our men could not have acted otherwise than they did. Harvard claims that there existed merely a misunderstanding, the blame of which can be justly attributed to no one. Is it not, then, obvious that on no account could an apology be expected of Harvard when she was conscious of no wrong doing? The spirit of this challenge was right and amiable, and for their good sense in accepting it the students are to be congratulated. Let these malcontents therefore regard this matter in an impartial light, and not permit themselves to quibble over an imaginary slight. - [Columbia Spectator.