By challenging our freshmen to a race, Yale has undertaken to renew a custom which existed about a dozen years ago, but which, for reasons unknown to us, was given up. We think it was in 1873 that the last Yale-Harvard freshmen race was rowed. The question that troubles the Harvard freshmen now, whether or not to row with Yale, is a difficult one to decide. To Yale the proposed race offers very evident advantages, while to Harvard it offers extra work and probably extra expense, without any great benefit that we can see. Perhaps the only argument that Harvard men can offer for the race is that it will be one more contest with their most distinguished rival. Such an argument, however, has weight. Probably a similar argument has also largely influenced the Yale freshmen in their recent action. If our freshmen find that one more race can be rowed by them without seriously increasing the strain and expense already necessary, we think that a race with Yale would be a pleasant and even desirable addition to our present inter-collegiate contests. But we hope a meeting of the class will be called that the general sentiment may be learned. The precedent of a Harvard Yale freshman race at New London should not be hastily established, and opinions should be freely expressed by all interested, as well by the prominent boating men of the college as by members of '89.