Dormitory rowing has been continued from year to year because it provides an easy means for a large number of men to take regular exercise, and because the scrub crews are all feeders for the University squad. Last fall the crews went badly because men failed to report regularly; if this obstacle is to be avoided in the season which opens on Monday more unity must be manifested. Men who fail to report with reasonable regularity and promptness not only lose their own exercise but they spoil the practice of others.

This University has enough men of leisure to man at least twenty-five boats every afternoon this fall. The football team can well spare a few of the many Idlers who watch its daily practice, and the facilities of the two boathouses can be used to much better advantage than they have ever been in the past. The complaint that Harvard has a dozen spectators for every athlete has been a frequent one in our athletics; the dormitory rowing season offers a good opportunity for lessening the disparity.