HARVARD MEN AND MUSIC

Dr. W. R. Spalding '87, assistant professor of Music, has compiled statistics which are intended to show that academic instruction plays a considerable part in the development of musical ability. Taking Harvard, the pioneer in instruction of musical theory in America, as an example, Professor Spalding cites a number of musicians of wide reputation who graduated from the University. Francis Boott '31, who, at his death, left a fund of $10,000 for the establishment of the prize which now bears his name, was university known as a song writer. John Knowles Paine '69, the well-known composer, founded the department of Music here. Of men still living he cities 19 composers, graduates of Harvard, who have a national reputation, among whom are men as distinguished as Arthur Foote '74, G. A. Burdett '81 and F. S. Converse '93. Among critics of wide repute there are seven Harvard men; among teachers, six; among executants, eleven; and among patrons of musical progress, eight, at the head of whom stands Henry Lee Higginson '82, founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.