EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-Cannot something be done to insure sending a four-oared crew to the intercollegiate regatta to be held at Saratoga on July 4th? The hotels have offered free transportation and accommodation, so that the cost of such a crew would be comparatively slight. The necessary expenses would be somewhere between $400 and $500, and surely such a sum could easily be raised for the purpose. The objection that shall immediately be made to sending a crew, is that there would not be time to shake a four together after the Yale race, and that any other crew would not be representative. But the material required for an eight-oared race of four miles, or a four-oared race of a mile and a half, is generally admitted to be of so completely different a character as to make it perfectly possible to have a representative four and eight at the same time. Yale evidently appreciates this fact, as she intends, according to all reports, to put a four on the water next spring.

It would be perfectly possible to pick out a four from the class crews immediately after the class races. This would leave nearly two months before the regatta at Saratoga, which ought to be ample time to get a crew together, as the men will already be in condition. This is practically the method adopted at Oxford and Cambridge. There is no reason why Harvard should not be willing to be represented by a crew chosen in this way. Such a crew would be thoroughly representative of this style of rowing, and would (for the distance) very likely be faster than a four picked from the eight.

A part from the desirability of being represented at Saratoga, four-oared rowing is too fine a sport to be neglected in the list of Harvard's athletics. Fours are very different from eights, and in many respects much more scientific. An eight-oared crew is much more difficult to get well together, but a four requires of its crew a thorough knowledge of watermanship, and a delicate control of the oar, which but few men who have rowed exclusively in eights ever possess. R.