It is indeed to be regretted that the words of Captain Strong to the University crew squad upon the importance of defeating the Cornell crew next spring should be so completely twisted and misconstrued by certain daily papers as to allow the spreading of a report which casts a shadow of doubt upon the supreme importance which Harvard attaches to the final contest of each rowing season with Yale on the Thames. In rowing as in all the other major and minor sports Yale has been, and will continue to be the rival that we are most keenly anxious to meet and to defeat.

It seems almost ridiculous that an athletic axiom as firmly ingrained in every Harvard graduate and undergraduate as this should be questioned at all, and that it be questioned upon so slight a provocation as the one now advanced is doubly surprising.