Note and Comment.

Bob Cook, Yale's boating authority, arrived to-day, and will remain with the 'varsity crew until the New London races are over. In the correspondence that preceded his arrival in this country, Chainey, the English coach, was made to thoroughly understand that he was not employed to give instructions in the British style of rowing. His service would be rather to consolidate this with the American system, taking from each the good that was in them and producing something better than either. He was, moreover, to rig the boat and adapt it to the stroke determined upon, and in other ways make himself useful to the crew. For this he was to receive $25 a week. Cook and Cowles soon began to say that Chainey was incompetent. Cook, however, returned to Philadelphia, where he remained three weeks, when he received a letter from Captain Cowles, which stated that things were going from bad to worse under Chainey's coaching; that the men were demoralized and discouraged, and that unless something was done right away, the exhibition of Yale's oarsmanship at New London would be a disgraceful one. He came on to New Haven and found that all the criticism that had been made upon the demoralized condition of the crew was true, and that Chainey was thoroughly incompetent. He advised, therefore, his discharge and the employment of another man. At his suggestion overtures were made to many oarsmen, Wallace Ross among the number. None could be obtained, and now Cook says he is here to pull the crew through, if possible. He claims that the secret society influence will have nothing to do with assigning places to the crew. In direct contradiction to this statement, comes the fact that John C. Adams, of Oakland, Cal., has resigned from the third senior society. Nicholas Minor Goodlett, Jr., '86, of Evansville, Ind., has also resigned from the same society. One thing is certain; there is a big row in the secret society, and if common reports can be believed, it is over the 'varsity crew. - Boston Advertiser.