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EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: The Glee Club and Pierian Sodality are making a good deal of complaint about the smallness of the audience which attended their recent concert in Sanders Theatre. Their complaint perhaps is just and the unwillingness of many to attend is undoubtedly to be severely censured. But are not these two societies themselves somewhat to blame for their small audiences? To fix the price of admission to their own concerts is undoubtedly their own business, but if the price is fixed too high for the general public can they complain if their audiences are small. It should be frankly admitted, I think, that there are many men who cannot afford the price asked to admit to a Glee Club concert. If the societies make a larger profit from high-priced tickets and small audiences than they would from low prices and large audiences, their course is very reasonable. But why cannot they try the experiment of tickets at 50 cents and enthusiastic audiences of 800, instead of $1 seats and critical audiences of 200 as at present?

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