To the Editors of the Crimson:

I believe that there should be some expression of undergraduate opinion in regard to the proposed Christmas trip of the Glee Club which is now before the Faculty. In former years the prospect of this trip has been to the club what the Yale or Princeton game has been to the football team and since its prohibition by the Faculty the leaders have found it impossible to arouse any large amount of interest in the work of the club.

We have been told that this proves that men do not go into the club for their love of music, but that they may enjoy the excitement of the trip. I should like to ask how many men try for the crew or the football team because of their love of exercise? How many men come to college because they love to study? Is it not proper that men should be led to take exercise and to pursue a college course because of their love of athletic glory and their desire for worldly success? While human nature remains as it is we will require stronger motives than mere accomplishment to induce us to put forth our best efforts.

It is said that if the music was of a higher and more serious nature there would be less objection to the trip. But this objection is founded upon misconception of the true object of a college Glee Club. If our graduates wish to listen to classical music they will seek professional musicians. Men engaged in the serious work of life go to a Glee Club concert to renew their relations with their Alma Mater and to live over, to some extent, their college days. If the concert does not satisfy this desire it is a failure. To demand, therefore, that the club shall not sing light and happy music is to impose upon it a condition that will doom it to failure.

The graduates everywhere desire that the club should visit them, and the undergraduates, so far as I have been able to ascertain their sentiments, are unanimously in favor of the trip. It is to be hoped that the Faculty will not totally ignore their wishes in the matter.

F. DOBYNS '98.