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Communication.

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To the Editors of the Crimson:

Last Monday evening, in Union Hall, Cambridgeport, as was reported in your columns, a concert was given by the University Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs for the benefit of the Prospect Progressive Union. The concert was a decided success from every point of view. Our financial gain will be of the greatest assistance but we value still more something else. That the members of these clubs should volunteer their services and be willing to give special time to rehearsals and to the concert in the midst of the mid-year examinations, proves an interest on their part and on the part of the college in the work of the Prospect Union which does them and the college honor, and which is most encouraging to those who are at present active workers in the Union.

In our membership we have now some three hundred so-called "working men" of Cambridgeport and vicinity. These men, during the year of the existence of the Union, have come to have a high idea of the helpfulness and manliness of Harvard students, from personal contact here with a considerable number of them. This new evidence of "brotherly" feeling on the part of the college calls forth an enthusiastic expression of respect for and thankfulness to the students who have been so ready to help us. I wish I could adequately express how deeply the members of our Union appreciate the kindness and the courtesy of the Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs.

Who now has any right to talk of "Harvard indifference?"

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Very truly yours,ROBERT E. ELY.Prospect House, Cambridgeport, February 10, 1892.

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