EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: I find that among the names in the tug-of-war team which '88 proposes to pit against the other classes, in the present inter-class contest, there is one man of a member of the junior class who also figures upon the University Tug-of-War Team. It seems to me that, beside being in direct opposition to the established precedent of the college in the case of other athletic organizations, this is hardly fair. In making up the nines, crews and teams which shall represent the college in all intercollegiate sports, we pick out the best material we can find in the college as a whole, irrespective of class lines. Whenever a man shows marked ability or peculiar aptitude for any particular form of athletics, he is pushed forward and aided for the good of the reputation of the whole college. As far as athletics are concerned, he no longer belongs to any particular class, but the college.

Now after the best from each class have been chosen, I maintain, with all due respect to the efforts of the others who are left, that the inter-class contests are merely sports of an amateur nature, in which each class contends with the average untrained material which would be found in any body of young men. Whenever any of the more carefully trained or better fitted material is inserted the contest becomes one-sided.

Our 'Varsity crew men do not row upon the class crews; the members of the 'Varsity nine never play upon the class nines, and the same holds good with the other organizations. Many remember the discussion which arose last year over the fact that the coxswain of the 'Varsity crew was put in his class boat in the spring races. Why, then, should the '88 tug-of-war team have this advantage over the others?

JUSTITIA.