EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: The question of whether the Yale freshmen should be admitted to the Harvard-Columbia boat race is one of great importance. There seems to be a general impression that the Thames course does not by any means allow of three crews racing upon it at the same time. The best crew, through the position allotted it, may be left far behind, and the worst crew come in many lengths ahead. Is it not shameful that three great colleges should agree to such an unfair arrangement as this? At all events, no decision should be made until a thorough exposition of the facts conceining the capacities and peculiarities of the Thames River course has been made by some of those who are more or less familiar with that body of water.

Last year we made an exception to a custom of long standing; this year we would no longer make an exception, but go very far towards establishing a new practice. Yale's being admitted this year, means, practically, admittance every year. If we permit Yale to enter this race, the time does not seem to be very far distant when the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell and others, will also partake in it; thus in place of the time-honored Harvard-Columbia boat-race, substituting an inter collegiate regatta, such as was held at Saratoga in '74, '75 and '76. All this tends to lessen the importance and interest in the Harvard Yale 'varsity races which have hitherto held, and should always hold, first place among the boat-races of this country.

If there is any college that can afford to reject a challenge without loss of dignity, that college is our own; by refusing Yale's demand, we show that we have no apprehension of its being said that "Harvard accepted Yale's challenge because she was afraid of being called a coward if she refused to do so."

B. C. W.