TO CHOOSE THREE CREWS FOR UNIVERSITY SQUAD

Although the University crews have been on the river only one week, their development has been so rapid that Dr. Howe and the coaches will decide tonight what men will be retained next week in the three eights that will then constitute the University squad. Especially encouraging has been the work of Crew A and Crew B which, although they are not graded, have a majority of the veterans.

All five crews will go out together today and will be watched while rowing and while padding by Dr. Howe, the University coaches, and the members of the Graduate Advisory Committee on Rowing. There will be no attempt to actually race the men against each other for any set distance but the five eights will be tested for power and ability when rowing hard abreast of each other as well as when paddling at a lower stroke.

The cut tonight will be made partly on the basis of the work today and partly on the basis of the more extensive work of the week; the three crews retained will start work in their new form Monday. This does not mean that any crew will be dropped bodily; the plan as conceived by Dr. Howe calls rather for dropping 16 men--the remaining 24 men to be rearranged into the three eights.

The system of dividing the squad according to weight height, and experience, as was done early this week, has proved very successful and has enabled the men to become accustomed to work on the river much more easily. Some of the eights are still unsteady and there is some tendency to slight differences in form which prevent a crew from attaining the best coordination, but this is the only thing to be expected from crews with experience of less than a week's work on the river. The encouraging point is that some of the crews have already attained greater steadiness and form than any of the fall eights. The past week's work has proved without a doubt that the three weeks spent on the machines and the tank have enabled the men to get a firm basis of form on which to rest the work of the season.