The Yale Boat Club has adopted several important amendments to its constitution making it more nearly resemble that of the Harvard Club. "Their effect," says the News, "must be to increase our chances for victory on the water. The creation of an executive committee, to consist of the captain, a graduate and the stroke, to have charge if the training and selecting of the university crew is a long stride in the right direction. It has long been felt by boating men that the Harvard system of retaining the services of graduate oarsmen by giving them a voice in the selection and training of the crew gave the Harvard crew a very decided advantage over our own. For however good an oarsman an undergraduate may be, he may always learn from the wider experience of the 'old crew man.' Again and again in our boating history has the entire responsibility of deciding on the stroke and of selecting and training the crew, proved too much of a strain on a captain already doing a man's work in the boat." Victory at New London next June is now confidently looked forward to at Yale. Messrs. Cook and Hull, former captains of the crew, have been appointed to the executive committee.