BAND APPEALS FOR FUNDS TO PAY WAY TO YALE

The University Band, at the mass meeting tonight, is planning to collect funds sufficient to take it to the Yale game.

It has long been a custom for students to subscribe for a professional band at football games. With the advent of the University Band this custom has been done away with. Instead of a small professional organization at only the bigger games, Harvard rooters, for two seasons, have sung to the accompaniment of and paraded behind their own band, reputed, this year, to be the biggest and best collegiate band in the country.

With two exceptions--two professional players under season contract--every one of sixty-eight members are students earned by concerts the Band pays its own library and management expenses, while the H. A. A. willingly pays the salaries of the professional assistants during the football season.

Forced to Appeal to Students

However, when the Band accompanies the team on games away from home, with no financial return, the traveling expenses are so great the management is forced to appeal to the student body for support.

In the Centre, Princeton and Yale games and concurrent rallies alone a professional band of twenty-five pieces would have cost Harvard students over twelve hundred dollars; yet the University Band has played for every game since Maine, and asks only six hundred dollars to take a true Harvard Band of fifty men into Eli territory.

Fifteen minutes before the "Harvard Special" leaves the South Station, the Band, in crimson and white uniforms, will play the Harvard songs; on arrival at New Haven the Band, marching in the new "H" formation, will lead the parade to the Bowl.

To do this four hundred and fifty dollars must be collected at tonight's rally.