Apropos of the freshman Columbia-Harvard-Yale controversy the Yale News says:

"The Harvard Navy management are aware of the advantage that the Freshman race affords the boating interests of the University in different ways; and why should not Yale enjoy the same advantage? Besides the freshman classes of the two universities meet on the foot-ball field in the fall, and in the spring on the diamond, and it is only natural that the two crews should carry out this system on the water. The exclusion of our freshmen from the New London race will not check the importance that is now attached to this crew, as they have already under advisement one or two races in which they will enter, provided they do not row in the proposed triangular race; but, of course, they would much prefer to row the Harvard freshmen than any other crew, for reasons stated. College athletics, as seen in the recently formed base-ball league, and even last Saturday, in the harmonious foot-ball convention, have assumed a more manly and straightforward spirit. Why should there be an exception in the case of rowing? The Yale freshmen do not feel that they are asking anything unreasonable. In view of all this, we cannot but think that the Harvard freshmen will decide this matter with all the fairness which characterizes the sober second thought of intelligent college men."