INVITATION REGATTA TO BE HELD FROM MAY 17 TO 20

The second annual Harvard Invitation Regatta will be rowed on Charles River Basin this spring from Wednesday, May 17, to Saturday, May 20, inclusive. Twenty-one races are to be held during the four days of the festival, concluding on Saturday with the two races, one between the University and Cornell, the other between the Freshman crews. The chief object of the committee of University Boat Club members in charge of the event is to give the club, dormitory, class, scrub, and individual oarsmen a suitable climax to the season's rowing, thereby also stimulating general interest in watermanship among members of the University.

Entries for the many different events will close on Wednesday, May 10. Oarsmen should sign in blue-books which will be put at Leavitt & Peirce's for that purpose this morning. Races will not be held unless the number of entries is sufficiently large to make the contest an interesting one. Prizes, the exact type of which is not as yet settled, will be awarded to the winners this year as last.

Features new this season will be the Yale-Harvard class race and the Yale-Harvard single sculls. Preliminary races to decided the class crew and the scullers who will meet Yale will be held May 9 on the Basin. Coach Jack Manning is in charge of these trials. Another feature will be the scholastic singles, to be rowed if there are a satisfactory number of entrants.

All the races except those to be rowed on Saturday will be run off over a mile course, extending from a point slightly above Harvard Bridge to the Union Boat Club. Questions of eligibility will be decided by the committee in general charge of arrangements for the regatta. The chairman of the committee, P. S. Howe '17, Randolph 12, will be glad to give any information possible to prospective entrants.