EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.- I see that in your yesterday's issue you criticise one of the items of expenditure of the Boat Club. I should like to say as a member of the executive committee that the officers of the boat club are deeply sensible how much the crew is handicapped, in its efforts towards success, by the heavy debt under which the club is at present laboring, and that they are extremely anxious to reduce expenses to as low a point as is consistent with the welfare of the crew and that therefore any criticisms of the expenditures of the boat club, which are directed toward this end, are most gladly welcomed.

I think that your article is somewhat mistaken in one or two points, and I also differ from the opinion expressed as to the importance of Blazers.

Your editorial says, that the crew are provided with rowing uniforms in profusion, and that $150 are spent in providing them a loafing shore uniform, a luxury which for a three weeks stay in a secluded cabin on the banks of the Thames seems altogether unnecessary.

In my judgment there are several reasons why it is advisable to buy the shore uniforms. There are at New London three crews besides the two Harvard crews, and between these crews there is always an interchange of courtesies, moreover in the course of the two or three weeks that the crew occupy that secluded cabin on the Thames, they are visited by a considerable number of people, and they also always visit New London once or twice. I think that most Harvard men would like to see the crew which represents them, presenting rather a more uniform appearance than if clad in the motley garb which would result from each man wearing whatever clothes he happened to have in his possession.

Moreover, an uniform assists very materially in attaining that 'esprit de corps' which is so essential to success, and which it is the duty of the captain of every organization to seek to attain among his men. The men at New London are always worked as hard as the coach thinks that they will stand without making them sick, and it is very necessary that they should be cool and comfortable when off duty and resting, therefore they are provided with these flannel coats and trousers which are thinner, and cooler than the ordinary summer coat and trousers.

Your article makes a slight mistake as to the cost of these shore uniforms which I find on consulting the treasurers' books for last year, was $92.50, which I should think was fully equal to the average yearly cost, instead of $150.

The profusion of rowing clothes which is spoken of, consists of a cap, shirt, sweater, and a pair of a cap, shirt, sweater, and a pair of tights for each man. The H. A. A. has been kind enough to present the crew with shirts and caps, so that all that the H. U. B. C. has provided consists of the sweaters and tights, which does not seem a very profuse allowance for nine months.

If one might speak from experience, I should say that the luxuries of our crew were rather few and far between, and that if they could be provided with beds instead of cots, which would not squeak, and wake the whole crew up every time one of its members turned over, and which were long enough to hold a considerably larger fraction of each man, or if the crew could be provided with a few more kitchen chairs with four legs, instead of three, I imagine that they would think that they were really enjoying a few luxuries.

Respectfully yours,

J. J. STORROW, JR.