Considering the fact that there are six places to fill in the 'varsity boat this year the outlook for the crew is not encouraging. It is very seldom that a captain has so many new men to select and when to this is added the fact that the material to choose from is not over promising, only the hardest kind of work by the coaches and men will turn out a winning crew this year.

Fennessy '96, stroke of last year's crew, and Captain Davis are the only old men who are sure of rowing this year. Newell '94 will come out if it is positively necessary, and although Vail and Fearing are in the Law School, neither of them will row.

The new material is nothing remarkable, as most of the men are small and light, there being a good many men to choose from for bow and No. 2, but very few men who are good candidates for the waist of the boat.

It looks as if Harvard is to be forced this year, willingly or unwillingly into having a light crew. The candidates are on the whole doing well and show a great deal of snap in the work. They are quick in catching the ideas, and seem interested in what they are trying to do.

The whole stroke has been taken up, the parts being separated and only ten inches of slide being used. As soon as the stroke is rowed all the way through, the crew will go to the tank in the Carey Building.

A new paper shell has been ordered from Waters in Troy, and Davy is building a new barge for the crew. The barge will be only twenty-eight inches wide instead of thirty-six as the old one was, and it is thought that this will effect a great saving of time in the work of the crew, as the change from barge to shell will not be so marked as heretofore.