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In connection with music, the Symphony Concerts are not alone in being unappreciated by the students. The chapel choir does not get nearly the credit due it. This may be because the students are not aware of the tortures from which, in its present form, the choir saves them. Those who know of the singing in other college choirs must feel how much better the music is here than elsewhere. Indeed, so far as we are aware, no non-sectarian college in the country except Harvard has adopted the boy-choir system. It is common in England and is there carried to its greatest perfection. The present choir is the product of a slow but steady growth of more than ten years under the careful, skillful training of Mr. Locke. In the time of early, compulsory chapel the music was enough to freeze a man's soul; now it is an excellent aid in the work of the chapel. We do not mean to detract from the value of the ministerial work done; we only say that the music is an excellent supplement to that work. If more men would take the trouble to find out what goes on in chapel there would be a much better appreciation of both the music and the ministerial work.

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