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The boating relations of Yale and Harvard are at this moment so strained that their rupture seems inevitable. The mere mention of this fact, says Alden of the Times, is enough to throw a gloom over the entire country and to discourage the friends of education all over the world. The cause of the trouble is not definitely known, but it is understood that as to certain important educational matters-such as the choice of the place where the annual boat-race is to be held and the selection of a referee-the representatives of the two universities are hopelessly divided. A day or two since the Yale president, who must not be confounded with another person-one Noah Porter, who is sometimes called president of Yale College-had a long interview with the Harvard captain, and the two great men parted with a conviction that a rupture could not be prevented. The prospect now is that no boat-race will be rowed this year, and should this be the case, the future of American higher education will be dark indeed. [Ex.