The letter from our correspondent, '74, says that some recent Harvard graduates have declared that the members of the crew are not chosen fairly, or according to superiority of work. This is an insinuation which is entirely without foundation. It must have been made by some man who was very much disappointed at some time during his college course; for no fair-minded man would be able to make any such statement with reference to the crews of late years. This charge of unfairness on the part of a university captain is very easy to make, but very hard to prove, and a man has no right to make it, whatever he may think about the merits of the case. A captain is assured of the support of the college, when he takes his position, and at the same time he tacitly agrees to work for no other purpose than for the best interests of his team. He therefore is sole judge of his actions, and of late years we can recall no instance where confidence has been misplaced.
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