The lack of interest manifested by the students with regard to the work of the 'varsity crew has increased greatly of late. To be sure, it was bad enough when the crew first went upon the water this spring, but even then sometimes half-a-dozen fellows did manage to straggle down to the boat house during the course of an afternoon, but now it is a rarity to see a solitary person there who is not in some way connected with the crew. There is not a college in the country which offers better facilities for seeing the crew while practising upon the river than Harvard. At Columbia everything is different. There it takes fully an hour instead of ten minutes, to go to the boat house upon the Harlem, yet every afternoon a number of students are present to encourage the eight men who are to represent their college at New London. The case with us appears to be, that the more the advantages offered, the more they are neglected. It is all well enough when the crew have won a hard earned victory for their friends to greet them with hearty cheers and hand-shakings, but it would be far better if some of the pent-up enthusiasm could bubble forth now, instead of lying latent for the next four weeks.