Communication.

To the Editors of the Crimson:

I wish to protest against the tone of your editorial of June 17, in which you say: "It would be a really remarkable performance if the crew should win this year." This editorial, it seems to me, brings out forcibly one of the strongest reasons for Harvard's defeats in the past. We are satisfied with too little from our teams. Our attitude has been too often that of your editorial, when you say of the crew: "All that we have a right to expect of it is for it to make a reasonably good, creditable showing." To be sure, we do want this; but we want more. We have a right to expect, and we do expect, that they will win,

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