A GOOD PUNT

At that rare season in Cambridge when Sunday afternoons are also pleasant afternoons, it is grievously unseasonable that Weld Boat House should be kept under lock and key. There are many whose only opportunity to seek the upstream zephyrs comes upon the Sabbath. Others who find themselves free to go a'rowing are turned away, and instead of gliding upon the surface of the river, must content themselves with running around it. The Charles, when it might be covered with graceful cedar craft, maintains an austere and puritanical state of isolation.

Certainly there is no moral or religions reason why Weld Boat House should not be open Sunday. Rowing is the most wholesome and celibate of sports--it inspires the contemplative mood. Nor is there firm foundation for the assumption that most students spend their week-ends at Bar Harbor. The financial consideration, ever present, would be solved by those who, having no participation tickets, would have to stand the fee. But rather than attempt to belabor this sabbatical restraint of navigation on logical grounds, it is better to regard it as one of those conditions which are unsupported by rational though, and which will pass slowly away as spring thaws the bureaucracy.