CLASS CREWS.

IN the Advocate of last week appeared an article proposing a change from the present system of club crews to that of class crews, in which the writer suggests that we buy no more boats from Mr. Blakey, but devote our resources to the purchase of the shells left over each year by the University Crew, and thus return to class crews. That some change should be made is universally admitted, but the suggestion to buy no more boats from Mr. Blakey shows that the writer must have been ignorant of the agreement made with the latter last year. In this agreement the four clubs promised to pay Mr. Blakey $2,500 for all the boats at present in the club boat-house, of which $1,500 was to be paid before July 1, 1877, and the remaining $1,000 before April 1, 1878. However unwise and hasty this agreement may have been, it is now too late to retract it, and in order to insure the payment of the remaining debt, the officers must enforce the rule that nobody shall use any club boats during the ensuing year without a previous payment of $10.

This, however, need not prevent a return to class races if the crews will be satisfied to use the club boats this spring, and defer the purchase of University shells till next year. A class race, even in our club boats, would be far more interesting than club races can ever be, and would insure the entrance of crews better trained than they have been for the two years past, and class feeling would act as a stimulus to greater exertion.