Communications.

EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - I was made to state in the columns of Saturday's Record that it was through a mistake of Dr. Sargent that Harvard was forced to withdraw from the Oelrich's cup. I had already shut off a wildly improbable account which was on its way to the N. Y. World, and tried to explain the matter to the Record reporter so that no misrepresentation of the Doctor should get into the Boston press. The facts of the case are these. 1. That Dr. Sargent was only following instructions in recalling us. 2. That we had but an infinitesimal chance of winning the cup with a crippled team. 3. That we had already undergone great pecuniary sacrifice, and should have had to undergo more, to play in the tournament. 4. That under the unfair provisions Harvard would have had to play the finals in New York on June 5th, and it would have been seriously difficult to go down then.

I am sorry that Doctor Sargent's connection with this matter should have been misrepresented, as he has shown himself a sincere friend of the team in all the difficulties they have had to undergo this year.

LLOYD McK. GARRISON.