MUSIC DEPARTMENT HAS ITS BACK AGAINST WALL

Increased enrollment, including more than 300 students in the new survey course Music 1 has in a paradoxical manner driven the Department once more "to the wall". The University has not got the material for study at ready disposal. There has never been an adequate music library, either in crowded Paine Hall or in Widener where lack of complete files makes many valuable scores unavailable.

Now in a desperate effort to keep his new course from falling apart at the start, Archilbald T. Davison '06, Professor of Choral Music, and the members of the department are frantically striving to build up libraries in the Houses and Widener reading room.

Last Spring a petition, signed unanimously by students of music, requested the University to allot funds sufficient to enlarge the Paine Hall stacks and to transfer scores from the main Harvard library.

Again this year the Department labors under a minimum budget provided by endowed funds, while at the same time it is bending every effort and extending hope that in the year following the Tercentenary money will be found to do justice to a part of the University which in every other way can offer a student unparalled opportunities.