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Rh "What is it? Do we have to raise an additional ten thousand dollars?" asked Tom, suspiciously.

"No, nothing as hard as that. But we have to form a regular rowing association, and promise to work our level best to be the champions of the river and lake. Shall we do it?"

For a moment there was silence. And then Tom cried:

"Of course we will!"

"Why shouldn't we?" demanded Phil.

"Say, this is great!" came from Sid. "Randall going to have a crew at last! It's about time. But I say," he went on, "it's too late this term to think of it. Why we only have a few more weeks before the Summer vacation."

"I know it," replied Frank, "and the idea is to get things in shape the remainder of this term, and have a regatta early in the Fall, before the football season opens. I think we can induce Boxer Hall and Fairview to enter into that sort of agreement, even if those two colleges do row each other every Spring."

"Good idea," commented Tom.

"Say, Frank, how comes it that you know all this?" asked Sid.

"Merely by accident," answered the Big Californian. "I was coming across the campus just now, plowing along through the water with my head down, and I ran plump into Moses and Dr.