The communication in yesterday's CRIMSON, suggesting that the boat club should award prize cups to the winners in the fall scratch races, should receive the attention of the boat club. It seems to us that the request is justifiable, and that the cups should be awarded, as in former years. We cannot imagine why there should have been this delay. Can it be that the boat club does not intend to give any prizes? It is, to be sure, a matter of some importance, and we feel that the boat club ought to allow the winners trophies of the anniversary celebration. As our correspondent points out, this year of all years was hardly one in which to stop the custom of awarding prizes in the scratch races. Moreover, if the contestants entered the races under the assurance that prizes were to be given, the boat club has no right to withhold them. Let the boat club, then, settle this little difficulty by purchasing the cups immediately and awarding them, with appropriate inscriptions, to the winners who have been patiently waiting for more than four months.