There is perhaps no immediate question of organization more vital to the athletic interests of the University than the permanent establishment of the Weld Boat Club on a firm financial basis. The training school is of undoubted value, and has in the last two years certainly proved its right to rank as a 'Varsity institution.

The running expenses of the club are necessarily large and as its work expands will inevitably increase fully as fast as will the receipts from member-ship dues. Any addition to the dues exacted from each member is certainly to be avoided if possible. The chief object of the club is to induce the largest possible number of men to learn to row, and no small part of the success already attained is due to the very moderate charges. Everyone who has used the club knows that the he gets a most liberal return for his money, and this fact acts as a constant incentive to others to avail themselves of such an opportunity.

It is highly desirable then to retain the present low rate, if some outside method of support can be found.