We publish on our first page to-day a clipping from the Boston Globe in regard to the Columbia race. The fact that Yale and Columbia have patched up a combination in this rowing matter was at first doubted among the students who heard of the affair yesterday. And it seems that they doubted with great propriety. The proposition of admitting Columbia into the four-mile race with Yale on the Thames is preposterous. Every rowing man and almost every student in the country knows that the course at New London is utterly unfit for a race between three crews, and we must say that Columbia shows great presumption in proposing any such arrangement. If she wishes to row Yale - a very laudable desire by the way - there is no reason why she should not do so, but to drag Harvard into such a race is more than she has a right to propose.

As for the freshman race, the question at issue has been decided once, and the bringing up of the subject for reconsideration is out of place, especially when our friends at New Haven believe it advisable to join forces with Columbia, and by demanding recklessly, hope that something may be granted.

This development which has come so suddenly is a species of vain bullying that deserves and shall receive no further notice from us. The crew management, we believe, will dispose of the matter summarily.