The unfavorable terms on which the different class crews are able to procure satisfactory food during the season of strict training, suggest the need for some such saving arrangement as a cooperative training table. The prices at which alone the men can be accommodated at separate tables, are in all cases too high for the quality of food which is furnished; not higher, perhaps, than those who board the crews are entitled to ask, but higher than the crew managers should continue to pay if cooperative boarding could reduce the amount. The class crews are not self-supporting, and it is only fair to those who do support them that the expenses should be made as low as possible. The cooperative training table would be, we believe, a step in this direction, and we hope it will be seriously considered.
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