In former years it has been the custom for the Glee club to keep up the interest in their work by giving occasional concerts in the neighboring cities during the winter months. These concerts have always been well attended and have fully repaid the trouble by the amount of pleasure which the men derived from them. This year, on the contrary, there has been little or no interest shown in the matter. The Glee club has sung only four times this year, including the singing at the Springfield assembly, which can hardly be called a concert. Of the three concerts, two were in Cambridge and the other in Brookline. This is a poor showing for one of our most successful clubs.

There seem to be two causes for this neglect. The first is that the action of the amusement committee on the proposed Christmas trip cooled the interest of the members, and the second is that many men in the Glee club expect to sing in the Hasty Padding theatricals, and cannot give time to both clubs. Neither of these reasons is valid. Before last year the club never went on a Christmas tour and the local concerts were quite sufficient to keep up a strong interest in the rehearsals. The disappointment this year was undoubtedly discouraging, but the success of the two concerts given since Christmas shows that its effect was not lasting.

The other cause is of still less weight. The Glee club is a university organization of long standing, and a private organization like the Hasty Pudding club ought not to be allowed to interfere with it. The number of Glee club men who sing in the theatricals is usually small and their places could undoubtedly be filled, at least temporally, by new men.

The result of the long stagnation will, without question, be very disastrous to the work of the club next spring. It is to be hoped that immediate steps will be taken by the new management to restore the club to its former activity.