With reference to the communication printed in another column it may be said that the writer has mistaken the aim of the Glee Club when he says that it is to awaken an interest in Harvard. It would indeed be delightful to believe that our musical clubs were doing such a great work in the west as to influence people to come or send their boys to Harvard. But it must be acknowledged that this belief would be rather Utopian. A set of musical Harvard men giving concerts and being lionized, however agreeably they might appear, could hardly be expected to have much influence in the weighty matter of education. Probably the principal thing that the musical clubs do accomplish, besides having a very pleasant time, is to bring Harvard memories and associations back to the distant graduates. Obviously, then, the sensible plan is for the clubs to go where they can reach the largest number of such graduates, and for this reason the West is a more suitable field for them than the South.
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