GLEE CLUB STAGES FIRST OF CONCERT SERIES DEC. 4

On Thursday, December 4, the University Glee Club will present the first of a novel series of concerts to be inaugurated by it this season. Since its separation from the Musical Clubs the Glee Club has attempted to raise the standard of the music which it will present. On this score, in explaining the recent reform in the Glee Club, Dr. Richard C. Cabot '89 has made the following statement:

"The Harvard Glee Club has been recently reorganized so as to represent the best musical ability in college and has cut itself loose altogether from social considerations in the selection of its members. This is a reform parallel to that which took place some years ago in the teams representing Harvard in intercollegiate athletics. Men used to be chosen for those teams not solely because of athletics ability but sometimes because they belonged to certain clubs or were otherwise socially approved of.

More Representative Hereafter

"So it has been with the Glee Club in the past and this has prevented getting all the best singers in college and consequently has kept the singing below the best obtainable. This year the Glee Club may be said to be, for the first time, really representative of the college and of the highest musical ability in it.

"The music to be sung at these coming concerts will be of an altogether higher order musically than that which has characterized the Glee Club concerts in the past, and from what I know of the work of the Club's leader--Prof. Archibald T. Davison,--I am sure all who are interested in good choral singing will find the concerts of unusual interest and value."

Tickets may be purchased at Herrick's, the Copley Plaza, the Touraine, the Harvard Club of Boston, and Kent's University Bookstore. Prices for the season tickets are $3.50, $2.50 and $1.75. Tickets for this single concert are $1.50, $1.00 and $.75.