Indifference Worse Than Interference.

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

En route to a class yesterday morning I asked an undergraduate, one who might be classified as typical and personally disinterested, what he thought of the recent articles apropos of the Crew situation. To my astonishment he vouchsafed the following illuminating opinion:

"Well, why worry about it at all? The Crew is bully good fun; they have a peach of a party at Red Top, and at nine o'clock the night of the race no one cares who has won."

Finding it impossible to believe that such a casual attitude could exist concerning one of the major sports at Harvard, I made it a point to raise the subject among other men during the day. My astonishment increased when I found that similar opinions are held by others, whose loyalty and pride for the University I had never before questioned.

Crew men complain that this question does not concern the undergraduate body. Perhaps it does not, but one would think that the men who work hard and faithfully for six months of the year, who go through a period of training much more rigid than any other sport, and who give the last ounce of their strength in the Yale race, would bitterly resent such a lack of appreciation on the part of the men they strive so hard worthily to represent. As has been said before, the average undergraduate has no faith in the present system, a system which makes possible such dastardly stories as circulated about the country last summer concerning the state of Harvard rowing. At present there is not the least friction. The whole student body is absolutely behind Captain Morgan. Could there be a more propitious moment to give serious consideration to the suggestions so ably advanced by the CRIMSON and W. J. Bingham? W. C. BOYDEN, JR., '16.