The two Yale crews, which took the water at New Haven Wednesday afternoon, will probably precede the Harvard crews on the water by at least ten days. Coach Brown expects the Charles to be open the latter part of next week at the earliest, if the weather continues as it is. He added that getting on the river a week from Monday will be early.

The ice in front of Newell Boat House is still six inches thick, but below Anderson bridge opposite Weld Boat House the ice is very thin, and below the next two bridges farther down there is clear water, largely due to the hot water discharged into the river from heating plants.

Last year the first two crews began spring rowing before the Charles was clear of ice by journeying to the Shawmut Boat House in South Boston, where the crew rowed on the salt water for about ten days. Yale is doing much the same thing this year inasmuch as Coach Leader opened his spring rowing in New Haven harbor instead of on the waters of Lake Housatonic, where the new Eli boat house is located.

Coach Stevens will not repeat last year's practice by beginning rowing in South Boston, because he has been advised that the experiment last year did not result in any beneficial results. Last spring, much time was used in transporting the men to and from Cambridge, the salt water was usually rough, the shells were not satisfactory, and the men had only ice water for their shower.

Concerning any changes in the line-up of the first three crews in the imme- diate future. Coach Stevens expects to make none or few before the break-up of the ice on the Charles. Every man on the first chree crews will have a good three or four weeks training on the water before the third crew is dropped,--a week or less before the spring recess.

Since the third crew men will not be turned over to the class eights before the week preceding the spring recess, Coach Brown expects to make no shifts in the class crews either now or after the eights get on the river. He expects to shift the men in order to even up the weight in the several shells, but he does not expect to grade the men until he has determined the status of those whom Coach Stevens drops from the first squad