The Yale school of music has just instituted a permanent feature in a symphony orchestra, the first of the kind organized in any university in the country. The orchestra, which includes about forty pieces of the best local musicians, affords the pupils of the school the only opportunity of any American university for having their own compositions played. The faculty have voted a special appropriation of $1500 for carrying out the plans of the school of music. During the present year six chamber concerts will be given, five by the Kniesel quartet of Boston, with assistance. The number of pupils studying in the music department this year is about one hundred, against thirty-five last year.