In our news columns this morning, appears still another letter about the crew. We are glad to learn from Mr. Sexton that the cost of the crew last year was not as large as we supposed. We present a scaled statement of expenses. The different figures published by us on Tuesday, were partly due to the haste with which we looked over tho treasurer's report, and partly to the blind manner in which that report was published. But although the $1770 of old debts paid last year were not part of the actual running expenses for 1883 84, they, nevertheless, were a most important item in the expenses to be met that year, and when counted, bring the total to $6745. This last item of overdue bills is an extraordinary one to be sure, but must be met, unless we are to keep always in debt, a state of things which no one would desire to see. The average for Yale crews is, we still think, less than ours. We have learned from a careful examination that the figures given for the Yale crew were also too large, and their report seemed to indicate that there were double entries, which would make Yale's expenses for 1883 84, somewhere near those of the Harvard crew, perhaps less. Moreover, the Yale report expressly stated that the expenses of their crew for 1883 84 were unusually large, and that they would probably be about the normal figure in the future. Yale's expenses, then, for 1882-83, were much less than for 1883-84, when they were about the same as ours, but in 1882-83 the Harvard expenses were not much less than in 1883-84. For that year, and also the year before, Yale's crew was certainly cheaper than ours, before that, we have not the figures.

Our expenses for each period of three or four years, average more than for each corresponding period. What is worse, for the last few years, the crew has run in debt again. At the end of each year, the excess of liabilities over assets has grown until now the club finds itself $1,455.07 behind. It is this that we complain of. We cannot go on increasing the debt forever. Incurring a debt, except in some cases for extraordinary expenditures for permanent benefit, is willfully spending other people's money, hardly an honest proceeding. This is why we wish to have all unnecessary luxuries done away with. We have a debt to face in addition to the regular expenses of the present year, 1884-85, and it should be reduced in addition to paying all the regular expenses of the year.