The proportion of deaths among those who have rowed in the Oxford-Cambridge races since 1829 is shown by a carefully compiled "Record of the University Boat Races 1829-1880," recently published in London, to be below the average death rate. Out of 485 who had taken part in these races there were 870 survivors residing in Great Britain two years ago, besides others who could not be traced. Many of these had become clergyman, several reaching the position of bishops. The legal profession also absorbed many, justices of the English bench being among this number. Mr. Waddington, ex-premier of France, rowed in 1849, and Dr. Hornby, headmaster of Eton, in the same year, Mr. W. Spottiswood, president of the Royal Society, is also a 'Varsity Crew man. Altogether the list of intellectual oarsmen from Oxford and Cambridge is remarkable and speaks well for the great institution of crew training and its effects. The ideal which reasonably co-ordinates mental, moral, and physical training, permitting no disparagement of either, is nobly borne out by such a showing as is presented by these statistics. The thinly disguised doctrine of monastic denial and scorn of physical culture, which Dr. Crosby is trying to revive in this country, stands ill in the face of such facts.