To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Your editorial, "A Crew's Cruise," of April 30th was unique, astounding, and utterly stupid. You snatched at the opportunity to thump the University crew and the coach. . You said "the Freshmen would naturally be the easiest opponents the crew will meet this year". But Freshman crews have been known to break intercollegiate records; and if you have any doubts as to the unusual power and skill of this Freshman crew, I must suppose that you did not even see the race. Because the Freshmen defeated the University you cried "Something is obviously wrong,"--while like most poor critics you did not volunteer a reason nor one definite correction.

Upon hollow shoulders you tried to carry your assumed fact,--"if affairs continue to take the same course there will this year be a reduplication of a situation that has become intolerable to every one interested and most of all to the crew men themselves." Here you are following a common journalistic policy of creating a whirlwind; but your effort is rash, uncalled for,--and certainly untimely. And furthermore is it not harmful to bewail the crew and the coach just before a race, instead of encouraging them?

You wrote that "the only system that merits support is a winning system." Bah, Mr. Editor, such narrow mindedness, such bad taste, such lack of sportsmanship! W. E. STILWELL Jr. '25   Cambridge, April 30, 1923.