"If it is the right method to pursue to keep the work of the crew a profound secret to outsiders until, say, within one week of the race, and if any possible good can be expected from such a method, everybody would gladly acquiesce for the sake of expected success, but whenever a member of the crew is asked a question, mysterious winks and dubious monosyllabic replies are all the satisfaction usually obtained. When the university crew is beaten in a two mile race by a class crew, no explanation is offered and the old, old threadbare subterfuge is adopted, the blind, unreasoning method of utter silence impressed on every man in the university boat. Harvard is not afraid to do her work openly and is not afraid of giving us points, whether in her favor or ours. She tries to win and frequently accomplishes that end without a code of unwritten law on the concealment of interesting and valuable information. A week's notice before the race is the most the over sanguine would ask or expect, and in common justice they ought to have that this year." - Yale Courant.