EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: Permit me to correct a slight misunderstanding of my communication of Friday. Your correspondent of Saturday, while eminently fair in his comments; seems to think that I base my objections to the Thames course as a course for three boats. Upon Yale's experience of last year I intended merely to cite this as an example of what at any time might be repeated. The ground for my belief in the unsuitability of the Thames course for three boats, is the statement to that effect that I heard last year from many skilled oarsmen. The CRIMSON acknowledges the unfitness in an editorial of Nov. 17, 1886 - "Another objection is that three eights cannot race on the Thames course with equal conditions to each. Anyone who has rowed on the river cannot fail to have noticed how much the tide and wind may be of advantage or disadvantage - as Yale found out to her cost. And though this may hardly seem possible when the width of the river is taken into consideration, it certainly is the case." The italics are my own. I am, with respect.
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