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To the Editors of the Crimson:

Today the twelve schools which this year compose the Interscholastic Rowing Association begin their period of training at the B. A. A. and Union boat-houses. It is unnecessary here to recall the increase which this school rowing has made in the number of reasonably proficient watermen who have entered College with and since the present Junior Class.

It is of no little importance, however, that College rowing men, alumni of the schools comprising the present Association, keep in touch with the school rowing and stand ready to help the two professional coaches, Glendon and Wray, who have the boys in charge. Let the alumnus of the school go down to the floats at the foot of Chestnut street, in Boston, in the early stages of this season's rowing, and offer his assistance.

It is of the greatest importance that the boys, who today begin rowing with their school crews, should feel that their work is being followed closely and their progress marked by College men who have achieved some measure of distinction on Harvard Club, Class or 'Varsity crews. ARTHUR W. STEVENS.