To the Editors of the Crimson:
The financial management of the class crews is at present in a very unstable condition. As a new shell is needed a class is asked to subscribe money to defray the additional expense. When the class graduates the shell is either given or sold to a succeeding class crew. If it is sold who gets the money? If the crew management gets it what becomes of it? It would seem that it is simply so much money in the manager's pocket.
Now my suggestion is this: Let the 'Varsity management buy shells and let them to the class crews for the season. This, I think, would save money both for the 'Varsity management and for the class crews. A shell generally lasts about four years, so that the scheme is perfectly practicable and would save the subscribers to one class crew from paying for a shell to be used by a later one.
JUNIOR.January 31, '98.
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