We are glad to see the University crew squad so early reduced to a very small number. With the preliminary selection thus completed, the crew becomes a much more real thing than it has seemed during the constant shifting of places which has been necessary to determine the merits of the various candidates. Now that the few best oarsmen have been chosen, the interest of the University will follow them eagerly in their really serious work of developing an eight who can row together. We believe that there is every reason to be well satisfied with the progress which has been made so far, and to anticipate a continuation of it. Whatever may be the ultimate chances against Yale, there can be no doubt that the present system of rowing will have received the fairest possible test, and that the crew will profit much by the influence throughout its entire training of a fixed policy. Both crew and coach have our hearty wishes for the success of their efforts.