To the Editors of the Crimson:

Your editorial this morning attacking the 'Varsity Crew management, based as it is on an entire misapprehension of the facts, requires a few words in answer.

To take your statements in their order: In the first place no entrance fee is charged the class crews, but a charge of eighty dollars is made to cover actual extra expenses incurred upon their account. Secondly, the 'Varsity does give cups to the winners and much better cups than the baseball and football men get. Thirdly, the referee's tug is not the only extra expense incurred and it does not pay for itself, usually paying only about half the charter price. We pay the University $480 rent for the boat house, and coal, water and sundries amount to $100 more. Both these items would be less than half the present amount were it not for the class crews. Extra work about the buildings, the use of the 'Varsity pair oars and singles, and other items, increase the extra expense to a sum which the charges made do not cover. In the fourth place the class crews are not always in financial distress. The Ninety-six Crew is well managed and has always been free from debt, as the others might be if they were equally well handled. Finally, it would seriously embarrass the 'Varsity to make these expenditures and not have them refunded. We must raise nearly $5000 by subscriptions this year, and with such a task certainly cannot afford to pay out for the class crews nearly $400.

LINZEE BLAGDEN, Manager H. U. B. C. FRED W. MOORE, Graduate Manager.