We print today an account of the work which the various crews have been doing since they began work on the river and a criticism of the individual members. The crews certainly deserve all the support they get or can get. As the new platform and repairs at the boat-house will soon be completed, the opportunities for watching the men on the river will them be much better than at present, and large numbers ought to go down to the river every afternoon. The University crew certainly gives promise of great hopes of success when they come to be matched against Columbia and Yale in the latter part of June. Two months more of steady work ought to produce as fine a crew as Harvard ever put upon the water.

It is still early to make predictions concerning the class races, but it would seem from present appearances that that event of the college boating year on the Charles river will be very closely contested. Each crew seems to have the advantage in some particular, and the result is not likely to be a procession. No crew is thought as yet to be sure for first place, nor are the chances of any crew for that place so small that it is only hoping to save itself from last place. All things taken together, the class crews are to be congratulated on the state of affairs, as it lends more interest to the hard work to be done and reminds each man that only the most faithful attention to duty can secure for his class the coveted honors on May 10th.