An unfortunate tiff between the two principal university teams, the nine and the crew, has disclosed one of the ways in which student money is wasted under the guise of providing for the crew. It was announced some months ago that the nine were to change their uniform during the coming spring, crimson and black striped blazers and caps being substituted for the solemn gray ones of yore. The nine were about to order these, when in step the crew men and say that the striped blazers are their particular property, and request that the nine shall not wear them.

Leaving aside all questions of right or wrong, we should like to ask what necessity there is for the crew to have striped blazers, what necessity there is of taxing the students unnecessarily. The crew are provided with rowing uniforms in profusion, and no complaint is made. But why should $150.00 be spent in buying them a loafing shore uniform. Such is the price which blazers, caps, and white trousers cost. They are not worn nor needed by the men while in Cambridge. To provide them with such luxuries for a three week's stay in a secluded cabin on the bank of the Thames River at New London, seems altogether unnecessary. It indicates a looseness in the handling of the crew money, which it would be well to investigate more closely. No insinuation against the present manager is implied, but a protest against the habits of lavish expenditure, which has crept gradually, but surely, into many of the sporting organizations. The time has come to call for a halt. The sports have become so numerous and the number of games to be played so numerous, that the cost of supporting all is very large, and any unnecessary expenses must be cut off.