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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Due to the recent visit of the Harvard Freshman swimming team to Yale, followers of aquatics in New Haven have expressed a wish to see Harvard represented by a varsity team next year, hoping that Harvard would enter the Intercollegiate Swimming Association as a contender for the intercollegiate title.

Of course we are aware that it is a very difficult task to turn out a strong team in one year, especially handicapped as Harvard is by the lack of a tank. However, a start could be made next year, and it seems reasonable to suppose that in a few years Harvard would be one of the strongest contenders for the championship in the Intercollegiate Association, due to its enrolment and the quantity of good material that would be drawn from the New England schools, should Harvard take up this sport.

It seems strange that a University as large and as well equipped as Harvard is should lack a swimming pool. There is no doubt that a little agitation on the part of the undergraduates would cause the alumni to remedy this situation. Therefore, if the Harvard undergraduates formulated a varsity swimming team next year, practising with the best means available at present, this would act as an incentive to the alumni to furnish the necessary funds to construct a good pool.

The addition of a swimming pool to Harvard's athletic equipment would not only serve as a boon to swimming at Cambridge, but would furnish a source of recreation and amusement to many undergraduates now deprived of the privilege of swimming during the college year. It is doubted whether a more essential type of athletic equipment is lacking at Cambridge.

The entrance of Harvard into the Intercollegiate. Swimming Association is keenly hoped for by followers of the sport at Yale, for it would mean that, after a few years of constructive work, the triangle composed of Harvard, Princeton and Yale would be contending for another intercollegiate championship, just as in football, track or crew. This situation cannot be hoped for too largely.

Therefore, the Yale Swimming Association sincerely hopes that Harvard will not delay in an attempt to secure a tank from the Alumni, and that, having obtained this, Harvard, Princeton and Yale may fight it out for the intercollegiate championship in future years.

Hoping that the foundation laid by the Freshman swimming team this year may be the means of constructing Harvard swimming and water polo teams in the future, I remain, Sincerely yours,   P. C. WALSH, 3d.

President of Intercollegiate Swimming Association.