It is to be hoped that every member of the Harvard University Boat Club will make it a point to be present tomorrow night at the meeting, of which notice is given in another column.

Boating matters have reached such a crisis this year as they never have before, at least so far as the 'Varsity crew is concerned. Yale has tied the score of races won or lost against Harvard, and has commenced this year's campaign more vigorously than ever. Rowing men here must cease wondering what were the causes of our defeat of the past two years, and look for the causes of Yale's success. Clearly it is because at Yale the captain of the 'Varsity crew is not expected nor allowed to be responsible for all things pertaining to his crew and its management. He is not called upon to do the work of two men-to row in the boat and coach his crew at the same time. Neither is he left to choose his men or assign them their places in the shell. But has not that been the case here for three years, or perhaps longer?

It is too hazardous a system this bowing submissively to the opinion of a 'Varsity captain, and the sooner the custom is abandoned and a return made to the very plan which Yale now goes by (taken from Harvard originally and deliberately abandoned here) the sooner will Harvard crews win, and not before.

The duty of the officers to be elected on Friday is therefore plain to everyone. As to the recognized representative committee of students, they should at once choose and elect a body, consisting of three graduates, thoroughly converstant with rowing principles and crew management. These three men, together with the outgoing captain and incoming captain, should have absolute control of Harvard boating interests-university crew and class crews. To this executive committee of five members the crews should look for their instructions. Captains would then be relieved of the dread of unpopularity if they made mistakes, and would not become heroes if successful. Coaching would be the same for each crew, and not the coat of many colors that it has been in the past few years.

Graduates would regain confidence in our crews here, for we must not forget that some graduates rowed and won before we were born, and would support us with the same enthusiasm as the Yale Alumni support their undergraduates. This enthusiasm of Yale graduates and the co-operatian of students and alumni at New Haven is what makes it possible for Bob Cook, Esq., and certain other gentlemen to be travelling through the West this autumn raising large sums of money to help defeat Harvard again in 1888. If rowing interests and successes were left to become the burden for one man, the 'Varsity captain, to carry, how long would this earnestness and co-operation last?

And every Yale man knows this is the whole secret, perfect organization and nothing else. 1t is not phenomenal strength nor subtle trickery. It is careful attention to details, and until Harvard rowing undergraduates see to it that they place themselyes under the operation of the same thorough working plan and accept business like organization, defeat will come every year.

Everything, therefore, scratch races, so clamored for, and all the rest, must be put off, until Harvard has another graduate committee. The officers elected Friday night should settle the matter the very next day, so that the ball may be set moving at once.

And let us hope, with the Executive Committee once more established, that no body of students will ever again invite defeat in two successive years by breaking away from its control or advice.