In any institution of the size of Harvard there must be departments, either in the academic work itself or in the social life of the students of which the large body of graduates and undergraduates are more or less ignorant. There are courses of study which interest but few men and which are unknown even by name to the majority; there are various movements in the line of athletics and in the way of purely social affairs which are little known and less cared for and all this is but natural. But there are great forces at work here for culture of which the students are woefully unappreciative. One of these, and perhaps the most striking, is music. We have one of the best halls in the country for orchestral music and we have during the year a series of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and all this provided with a view to the pleasure and profit of the students. Yet the students as a whole take surprisingly little interest in these concerts. Of all the tickets sold it is doubtful if over ten per cent get into students' hands. The price of tickets is very cheap considering the quality of the music and everything is favorable for a large sale, but for some reason the students do not go. Why this is so we cannot explain; we can only point out the melancholy fact.