The lack of class feeling shown by the freshmen in neglecting their crew is deplorable. The last instance of it has been shown in failing to engage a tug to follow the class races and encourage the '93 crew. In former years the freshman class has almost invariably filled at least one tug, and sometimes two; but less than twenty '93 men showed enthusiasm enough to sign for one. Subscriptions, also, are slow in coming in. The manager is already seriously hampered in paying current expenses. Unless the crew is far more liberally supported, the race with Columbia will have to be for felted.

The members of '93 have shown as yet but little disposition to give more than good words to their crew. Such contributions will not pay the expenses of a shell, training-table, and trip to New London. They seem but hollow and meaningless when the speakers persistently refuse to give any more substantial support. The present lack of interest is disheartening to the crew as well as to the manager, and will tell in the races. No man can pull his best when he feels that his classmates are indifferent to success. It the members of '93 are not wholly indifferent to their crew, and willing to suffer the disgrace of forfeiting the Columbia race, which they were so slow in arranging, they must make a decided change of front. They must show more interest in the work of the crew from day to day, and, above all, must respond immediately and liberally to the call for subscriptions.