The new paper shell in which the Yale University crew will row Harvard arrived on Wednesday of last week. It was built by Waters of Troy, N. Y., and is a beauty. It is just sixty feet in length, is very light, and is somewhat narrower and deeper than the boat used last season. The rigging, with one or two slight changes, is substantially the same as last season. The crew tried it on Thursday for the first time, and Captain Cowles expressed himself as well pleased with the boat, which is in every respect satisfactory. The crew is now rowing with the snap and vigor which characterized the victorious eight of '84, and under the watchful eye of Bob Cook the men are rapidly overcoming the defects which seriously marred their work earlier in the season. They will row a little in the new boat every day in order to become thoroughly accustomed to it. They will not pull over the four-mile course in it at full speed, however, until two days before the race. Then they will be sent for all they are worth, and if nothing happens they are going to make time that will astonish some of the chronic grumblers who are always and forever finding fault with the crew, the coach, the management and everything connected with the navy.

President Ames says that the secrecy and mystery adopted in '83 and '84 have been entirely done away with this year. He declares that everything at the boat-house is open to inspection at any time, and whenever there is room anyone can go out in the launch and see the crew row. The only thing kept secret is the time made, and this is not given out for obvious reasons.

One of the boating men says that in the race between the 'varsity and freshmen eights the other afternoon, the 'varsity men by no means put forth their best efforts, but merely endeavored to push the freshmen as fast as possible in order to see just what they were capable of doing. The freshmen demonstrated on this occasion that they were capable of pulling a fast race and making a fine spurt when called upon to do so. The freshmen will not row in a new boat at New London, as they have all along expected. Waters, who was to make their boat, has been hard at work on the Harvard 'varsity shell, and could not finish it in time to make a boat for the Yale men. They will therefore be obliged to use one of the old 'varsity shells, probably the '85 boat. Corbin is back again in the boat, having recovered entirely from his recent illness. It is uncertain who will pull No. 1. Wilcox and Mosle are both trying for the position, but it is thought that the former has the better chance, as he is heavier and stronger. - Globe.