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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

I nowhere referred to a committee of fifty to handle Harvard rowing. My words were "a committee sufficiently large so that..."

Possibly the fact that I was an extra strong man may have been in fact the cause of the loss of the race in 1903. Think it over.

And, I do not pattern my rowing on English systems, but only refer to the trying difficulty experienced last year in displacing for a better man the captain of Oxford or Cambridge. You can not change a man after the race starts as you can in football. F.W.C. Foster.

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