The report of the treasurer of the 'Varsity Boat Club shows an extraordinary deficit in the subscriptions from the freshmen. It has been an unwritten custom amounting almost to a law, that the members of the freshman class shall contribute, as a class, more than their share toward the support of the various university teams. This custom has arisen from a variety of reasons. The reason which at once accurs to all is, that the freshmen are not as yet members of any society, and are therefore saved all society expenses. It is answered that they have their own teams to support, and that those teams are more expensive than other class organizations; the upper classes can simply point to the similarity of conditions in their own cases and ask that for the sake of courtesy, if for no other more patriotic motive, their successors in their turn bear the burdens they have borne. Every freshman class undergoes the same test as to its interest in college athletics, and no class, except the present, has evaded it. We cannot believe that the class of '89 is more unhappily constituted than its predecessors, or that, if a just statement of the case be made to its members, they will will refuse to bear their fair share in the support of our athletics. The deficit may arise from a lack of proper canvassing. We sincerely trust that this is the only reason, and that the freshmen, if personally solicited, will contribute with pleasure their quota to the general Boat Club fund.