The Crew Finds Many Friends

IN a stirring display of intercollegiate friendship and of the spirit that pervades rowing as an amateur sport, several of the Ivy League colleges rallied to Dartmouth's support when the complete loss of the boathouse and six shells threatened to bring the Big Green crew to a dead stop after the remarkable progress of recent years.

Princeton contributed a shell and a practice barge, and Cornell also gave a shell. The Columbia University Rowing Club took the initiative in raising a special fund among crews and rowing enthusiasts in the East. Harvard made one of its shells available at a very nominal cost, and the Brown crew, a self-financed rowing club like that at Dartmouth, volunteered its trailer so the shells could be picked up and brought to Hanover at small expense.

Other assistance has come in the form of gifts of some $2,000, including $500 from the Undergraduate Council and $500 from Green Key. This has permitted the purchase of one new shell from the Worcester (Mass.) Oar and Paddle Company, and the start of negotiations with the U. S. Naval Academy for the purchase of two shells that are only a few years old.

The College itself has agreed to build the Dartmouth crew a new boathouse to replace the one that collapsed under the weight of snow in March, and the father of a senior has rounded out the reconstruction by providing funds for new docks at the crew's headquarters on the Connecticut. The new boathouse, already well under way, will be stronger and larger and will much better fill the needs of the Green crew.

If the Dartmouth Rowing Club needed proof of the support it has on the campus, and of the respect it has won for its efforts to bring crew back as a Dartmouth sport, the March disaster has provided it, and has to some extent been a blessing in disguise. But crowning the whole aftermath has been the helpful contributions so freely and generously made by other rowing colleges in the East.