Boat Club Meeting.

The meeting was called to order at 7.30. by Colley Amory and the following officers were elected: F. G. Balch, '88, president; E. C. Dorrow, '89, vice-president; F. G. Parker, '89, secretary: Thornton Woodbury, '89, manager and treasurer.

The meeting was not very full, only fifty or sixty members being present. But Mr. William Thayer, of the class of '81, was present and when Captain Pfeiffer made a motion to have a resolution passed to the effect that a graduate advisory committee be appointed, he advocated it and seemed to think that the graduates would take an interest, and would work for the crew. Discussion then ensued as to the advisability of this committee and what powers it should have. Mr. Pfeiffer said his idea was that this committee of three men should be chosen and elected by the officers of the Boat Club and should have a general supervision of all rowing matters for the ensuing year; that they should advise freely and have power to enforce, matters connected with the stroke, training and selection of members of the crew and general superintendence of the rowing matters in general. There has been too much relying on the present captain for all such matters during the past two or three years. but the question is whether it has been the captains' good opinion of themselves or the refusal of the graduates to help them out.

Oxford and Cambridge Universities have advising committees, and Yale has had one during the past few years, and Mr. Thayer says that after talking with some twenty graduate oarsmen within the last few weeks he is convinced that they will gladly serve on the committee if there is one, and will do their best to give the crew the benefit of their experience and observance. Captain Pfeiffer said very truly that it is too much responsibility for the captain of the crew to do all this alone, since he is necessarily a young man, and has not rowed more than three years; in fact, has in most cases rowed only one year in the university crew. That such a man should know all that is to be known about rowing is not to be expected, and that the crew should be beaten if Yale has an old and experienced oarsman to coach them is not to be wondered at.

The motion was finally passed as follows: That the officers of the boat club be empowered to choose and elect a committee of three graduates, to have general supervision of rowing matters for the year 1887-1888.

The meeting adjourned at 9 p.m.