4 APRIL 1874, Page 3

On Saturday Cambridge won the annual boat-race against Oxford. There

was nothing particular to mark the race this year, except that it was rowed rather slowly, that it attracted a rather less crowd than usual, that the Eights do not seem to have been quite so much photographed, and that the descriptions in the newspapers were almost short enough to be readable. A little more improvement of this kind, and the importance of the race may be reduced to the reasonable proportions which it has long absurdly exceeded. There is no reason why a boat-race should not give London a holiday, but there is every reason why it should not be raised into a national event, or one of importance to the Universities.