We heartily endorse the timely suggestion offered by our correspondent this morning. The old custom which he speaks of was a very good one and used to be a powerful incentive to the Crew. Why the custom was ever abandoned it is difficult to see. It probably died away gradually with the subsiding interest taken here in athletics, and the same deplorable apathy which has come over all our athletic interests in recent years has prevented its renewal. Now that we are beginning to rouse ourselves again and to see how wretchedly indifferent we have been, let us bring back as many of these old customs as we can. Let us once more line the bank of the river and cheer the Crew as heartily as we now cheer the Baseball Nine. The men who represent us in rowing are surely as deserving of encouragement as the baseball men or the track athletes, and their work is vastly more discouraging. Every day the Crew goes out upon the river and works faithfully and tirelessly, and with the exception of a rare word of commendation from the coach or a chance spectator, the men in the 'Varsity boat get no encouragement. The majority of students know nothing whatever of their work beyond what they may see in the college paper. They generally know the names of the men who are rowing, but that is all.

As the writer of the communication says there is now left little more than a week before the Crew will leave for Poughkeepsie, but in that week we may show the men who must pull the Harvard boat first across the finish line on June 26th, that we have confidence in them, and appreciate their work, however indifferent we may have seemed.