After being buffeted about for five weeks the petition of the musical clubs has been referred back to the faculty. This looks as if those who are determined it shall not be granted are trying to kill it without wishing to take the responsibility. The only specific objections we have heard to the trip are that it is beneath the dignity of University, that the attitude of Western people towards Harvard is such that they will scrutinize our representatives and turn every point against them, and that the scheme looks too much like advertising. The last is unimportant, for, aside from the unlikelihood of more than a very few ever thinking of the trip as an advertisement, it is hardly a good reason coming from an institution that advertised itself in the Youth's Companion last year. It is noticeable that, so far as we have heard, no one takes exception to the behavior of the club on the trip two years ago; and it is hard to see why the danger of any improper action has arisen since then. So far from the distrust of Harvard among Westerners being a reason for not letting them see a representative club of students, it should be an inducement for giving them the opportunity. We can afford to be judged by the standard of such a representation as took the trip before; and more than this, it is only justice to parents to give them the fairest means possible for judging us from a distance. As for the dignity of the performance, it is decorous and not cut of place for students. We fail to see the use of the faculty's expecting forty-year-old actions from undergraduates. Nobody else does.