EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Now that the question of a freshman race with Yale has been launched upon the consideration of the college at large, I feel that the impression created by your correspondent of yesterday requires as an adtidote the public expression of an opposing view, one which is held very genially throughout the college. First, your correspondent seems to admit that the course upon the Thames is so narrow that three crews cannot row there with equal chances, and he bases this assertion upon the fact that last June the Yale crew was compelled to swim over a part of the course. Now it has never been satisfactorily proved that Yale had any worse water than the other crews had. It has been satisfactorily proved, however, that the Yale stroke, as rowed last year, was certain to make any boat go to the bottom, in rough water, and it was suggested that if the Yale 'varsity had been compelled to row on water that was at all choppy, her boat would have followed the example set her by the freshmen. Thus we have no right to say that the Thames course is too narrow for three boats, because last year one of them came to grief.

Secondly, Harvard is in decadence, temporary of course, in almost all athletics. Can our freshmen afford thus to let the stigma of cowardice be cast upon them by refusing Yale admission into this race, when Columbia has set the example of her willingness? They cannot. If the Thames course is wide enough, Yale should be admitted without doubt. The question, we have been told, rests with the class of '90. If they do not admit them "they do it with their eyes open to the consequences."