The Harvard-Columbia Race.

Considerable surprise, but little dissatisfaction, was expressed by the students of Columbia College when it was officially announced at the last meeting of the boat club that the annual race between Harvard and Columbia was declared off this year. Prof. Jasper Goodwin, who stands in the same relation to the boating interests at Columbia that Bob Cook does at Yale, heartily approved of the decision arrived at. He said: "The agreement with Harvard providing for an annual race still continues, and the action taken by our representatives affects only this year's race. When we saw that we could not compromise on a date for the race we thought this would be a good time to liquidate the debt that has been embarrassing us for several years, and start out next fall unimpeded to train for next year's race. This course, I am sure, will commend itself to our alumni, who like to see business methods used in such matters. In order to keep up general interest in rowing matters throughout the college we intend to make a great feature this year of the class races, which will be rowed in May."