To those wondering what sort of a record the Varsity crew is likely to produce this year, a glance at past history might not be amiss, for if things past have any bearing on things to come, Crimson crew supporters should spend a happy and profitable spring.

Tom Bolles came to Harvard in the fall of 1936, in the five seasons during which he has boated crews on the Charles, his Varsity has lost only three races, his Junior Varsity six. 1938 and 1941 were undefeated seasons for the Crimson firsts, but Navy in 1937 and Cornell in 1939 and 1940 spoiled otherwise perfect seasons.

Only once has a Bolles-coached eight lost shirts on its own practice ground, the bumpy Charles River Basin, and that was when the Jayvees came in behind Syracuse. Yale and Pennsylvania have each headed, the Junior Varsity once, while Navy's second string oarsmen have thrice taken the Crimson's measure.

What has happened to Yale since Bolles took over makes much better reading, especially for those who have been afflicted by the Elis' annual last-of-February-first-of-March athletic rampages.

The last time a Blue crew won at New London was in 1935. At that time the series stood at 39 wins for Yale and 34 for Harvard. After the 1936 Crimson eight broke the ice, Bolles took up the task, and when the Varsity made it six straight over Yale last June, Harvard assumed a lead in the series for the first time in a long, long time. That first New London year for Bolles the Jayvees and Freshmen both lost, but since that time, for four straight years, the Crimson has won each of the four events, Combination, Freshman, Junior Varsity, and Varsity. When Captain Sherm Gray's undefeated eight swept under the railroad bridge last year it was the seventeenth Crimson shell in a row to leave a Yale crew astern.

In a less heralded but none the less efficient way, Bert Haines has been doing the same thing with his 150's.