Many of our students before entering college, have been accustomed to take a large amount of exercise in rowing. That is to say, they have been wont to go upon the water in some ordinary Whitehall or lapstreak boat for an afternoon's pull, which gave them not only splendid exercise, but also a great amount of pleasure. When these men enter college, some, of course, obtain seats in their class boats, but the great majority are obliged to forego their favorite sport until the summer vacation, merely from the lack of opportunity for exercise afforded by our present boating arrangements.

One of the best features of the English boating system is that, at the universities, provision is made for the men who are unable or unwilling to obtain places on the regular crews, to get a chance to indulge in their favorite sport. At both Oxford and Cambridge the boat-houses are supplied with ordinary rowboats, and the students gladly avail themselves of the opportunity for exercise thus offered. Just now we are agitating the question of forming a canoe club. This will go far toward making aquatic exercise popular among our undergraduates, but if some provision could be made for the men who miss their accustomed work at the oar and yet are unable to procure a canoeing outfit, great good might be accomplished.