Our correspondent's "Plea for College Music" voices a feeling which has often been expressed of late, though his criticisms apply with special force to the music of the Glee Club. It must be remembered, however, at the outset, that the musical ability of the club, which varies necessarily from year to year, must enter largely into consideration when the programme of songs for each season is made out. A good club can undertake to learn some songs which would be out of the question with an inferior one; and "classics," if well rendered and varied with music of a lighter kind will never fail of appreciation from Harvard audience.

Of "the lighter kind," as we have perhaps too vaguely termed it, there are two distinct varieties of songs upon which the Glee Club usually depends: First the old college songs, whose disuse our correspondent rightly laments; and secondly the songs, topical or otherwise, which have in most cases been written and set to music by Harvard men, usually undergraduates. For the lack of songs of this variety the College at large and not the Glee Club alone, is responsible. It is now a long time since there have been any very successful attempts in this line, and the lack of these songs has had its plain effect upon the programmes of the last few seasons.

There must still be men in the University with musical or literary ability enough to replenish the depleted stock songs. Have none of them the ambition?