The rowing rules of the Inter-Collegiate Association appear in a recent number of the Spirit of the Times. Comparing with the Yale-Harvard rules we find a few differences, although they are of minor importance; as we should naturally expect, the Yale-Harvard rules have the appearance of being more thought-fully and carefully drawn up.

As in our rules, accidents within the first ten strokes are allowed for, and fouling is carefully guarded against, although the Inter-Collegiate rules give a chance for fouls by allowing boats to depart from their course. Such a permission is liable to cause trouble sooner or later. The Harvard and Yale boats are required to keep in a course no nearer than ten feet and no further than one hundred feet from the line of central buoys.

The colleges comprising the association evidently expect that all the boats will be of the same length, for the crews are to start by their sterns and finish by their bows; as this is the simplest and easiest way of judging a race, this rule will probably remain in force until a change is rendered necessary by some college making an innovation similar to that made by Yale.

The other rules are similar to ours, excepting those which must necessarily be different on account of the number of boats entered, etc. The rules as a whole show judgment on the part of the framers, as nearly all the essential points are carefully covered.