MEETINGS HERALD START OF ROWING

At 5 o'clock this afternoon, Harvard's seventy-third crew season will be launched with a meeting for all upper-class candidates in the Smith Halls Common Room. Coach E. J. Bown '96, successor to last year's University mentors, E. A. Stevens and R. A. Haines, will be the principal speaker, and will be preceeded by Captain Geoffrey Platt '27 in talking to the candidates

Later in the day at 7 o'clock, also in the Smith Halls Common Room, the first meeting for all Freshman candidates will be held. At this meeting, Coach Brown and Captain Platt will again be present, as will also Haines who this year will again act as coach of the Freshman eights, a position he resigned last spring to assume charge of the University boat at New London.

Manager C. H. Weymer '27 has also announced that competition for the position of Freshman crew manager will start today with a meeting of all candidates at the H. A. A. office at 1.05 o'clock.