The question of the challenge of the Yale freshmen to a boat-race with our freshmen is discussed by the Yale News of Tuesday and in commenting upon our position in the matter, that paper says:

"The CRIMSON has evidently got its knowledge of the New London course at second hand, since everybody who knows the course is aware that there is room for the North Atlantic Squadron on the last two miles. The difficulty about the unequal velocity of the tide could be avoided by moving the course eastward. The fact that Harvard's freshmen crew of '89 obtained a very lame victory, in fact no victory at all, over Yale's superior crew did not seem to weigh very heavily on the conscience of the Harvard men when they refused '90's challenge. 'Yet they cannot throw Columbia over because '90 lost the race last year. We would advise our esteemed contemporary to be consistent. If Harvard wishes to act in a manly, straightforward way let them accept '91's challenge on their own condition."

If we follow the argument, we are accused of inconsistency because we state that in refusing the challenge of the Yale freshmen, the class of '90 did not consider the question of the '89 race, and consequently '91 ought not to be influenced, as we said she should, by the outcome of last year's contest. In favor of this view we hear that the Yale '89 crew practically defeated our freshmen two years ago, but the fact that they did not know how to row well enough in rough water, and so did not reach the finish-but the bottom-first has nothing to do with the matter. It is a good thing when a college knows how to take a defeat, even if they are occasional.