EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: In your issue of yesterday, I notice a communication referring to the '88 tug-of-war team, which is not, I think, just. It is not known what team will pull on next Saturday, though probably it will be the same as last year and the year before, with one exception. That has been the class team, and there seems to be little doubt but that it will continue to be the team. As to the university tug-of-war no one appears to know what that team is. Four men pulled at the Technology games, which, let us hope, was not the university team. A different four pulled at the games of the Ninth Regiment in December last; and still a third pulled last year. If, then, the fact that one of the '88 team has pulled on one of these many university teams destroys the justice of his pulling for '88 now, it would be perfectly right for '88 to complain of the present '87 crew on the ground that most of them had last year or the year before, or at some past time, rowed in the university boat.

There seems to be little need of answering your yesterday's communication, than by simply showing thus how ridiculous the writer's claim is. The fact that the university crew men do not row on the class crews does not at all apply, since the 'Varsity men can not practice by themselves until the day before the class race and then disperse into their class boats, and row with other men with half the efficacy that poorer rowers who have been training together. The university crew cannot well join the class crews, if they would. And in the case of the coxswain, it is quite well known that when that vote was passed last fall that there was somewhat of a misundering, and that there is still. Such an argument seems to apply but poorly to the tug-of-war question.

S.