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In another column we publish a communication that deserves all attention from '91. Trying for the crew not only affords exercise to the candidates, but fosters interest in athletics and this is of prime importance if we intend to win anything this year. Especially should the freshmen cultivate such interest, because of their recent standing. Class feeling for them has hardly had time crystallize into enthusiasm, and because of the newness of their surroundings they are apt to give their attention to matters of less real importance to themselves, their class and their college, than athletics.

The grand fault of freshman teams is an over-confidence which, prophesying victory, thinks superfluous the careful and minute preparation success demands. Anything then that tends to educate men in athletics or to cultivate interest in them is of vital importance to the freshmen as a body, as a counterpoise to the above mentioned error of over confidence, and individuals would do well to bear in mind that the training they can get by trying for their crew may serve them well later, when, being older, rougher and more fully developed, their ambition may be the 'Varsity crew.