INTERCOLLEGIATE MUSIC

In its issue of April 18 the Yale Daily News anticipated a movement already set afoot to arrange a second annual joint concert of the combined Harvard and Yale glee clubs, not to take the place of the informal meeting before the football game in the fall. . . . Having so much in common both in tradition and in modern tendency", commented the News. "It is unfortunate that the Yale and Harvard clubs do not come into contact except in the informal joint concert the evening of the Yale-Harvard football game. . . . Since this does not provide an opportunity for a presentation of the best work of the clubs, would it not seem advisable to hold is joint cncert in the winter or spring, in which both clubs might take part in the more elaborate programs which they are capable of offering and which real music lovers would delight to hear? . . ." The answer to this interrogation was forthcoming on the following day when the president of the Harvard Glee-Club announced in a letter to the CRIMSON, that an invitation had already been extended to the Yale organization for just such a concert and that an acceptance had been received.

With the announcement of definite plans and a date for the meeting in Symphony Hall next spring, a second to the favor shown toward the plan by the News is in order. When the Harvard club dropped-out of the intercollegiate competition last yea there remained only informal meetings such as the concert before the Yale-Harvard football game, Glee clubs, unlike athletic teams, are self sufficient,-competition is not a necessity. But, whereas there is no necessity, there is a very marked opportunity of intercollegiate relations of the highest type. A joint glee club concert does not even imply competition. The highest degree of cooperation and a friendly spirit between two large groups from different institutions in practice, would be the result of this sort of intercollegiate contact.