THE TRIANGULAR IDEA.

Aside from the interest attached to any major athletic contest with so formidable an opponent, the dual crew race on Lake Carnegie on April 20 brings Yale, Princeton, and Harvard a step nearer to a complete triangular system. With the remembrance of the University's defeat by Princeton in the Charles River Basin in 1913, the race will rank close to the fixed annual event in its importance. The contest, followed at intervals of a month by the meeting of Yale and Princeton and by the Harvard Yale regatta, will also offer a basis for judging the strength of the three universities on the water.

The possibility of complete triangular competition now lacks only the action of the track authorities. The football and hockey schedules have for several years recognized Yale and Princeton as the vital opponents. The institution of a three game series with Princeton last spring added baseball to the list of triangular sports. Outside of athletics the annual debate and the dual musical clubs concerts--though the latter are not competitive--give further evidence of the power which "the triangular idea" has attained in less than a decade of development.