The plan to develope second class crews and possibly a graduates' crew from the Weld Boat Club deserves unqualified support. Many promising men are dropped from their class crew squads every spring largely on account of their lack of experience. When these men and the others interested in rowing are organized into crews, not only will they be benefited, but if the University crew, as is often the case, should draw on a class crew for new material, the vacancy made in the class crew squad could then be filled from the Weld crew of the same class. In this way a thorough system may be had in rowing and every man of real promised will get a chance to row on a crew.

When Mr. Lehmann was here last fall and saw the facilities in the University for rowing he expressed his surprise that so few should take up the sport. In the English universities a very large percentage of the students go in for rowing whether they make their college crews or not and one reason that the Cambridge and Oxford crews are so fast is that they are the pick of such large numbers of men. Every move toward introducing this condition of things at Harvard is to be welcomed as a step in the right direction.