The contribution of the Student Council toward the expense of taking the University Band to Michigan is a gesture of hospitality and a surety for finer relationships between Universities of East and West that should bring considerable satisfaction to the body of Harvard undergraduates and graduates. Limited by a heavy program of expenditure the H. A. A. is obviously incapable of suffering the total cost of the undertaking, amounting to approximately $4,000. Through the aid of the Student Council, and the private gifts of certain influential Chicago graduates who have already contributed $500, Western graduates and the University at home is practically assured of having the representation of the Band in Ann Arbor.

To the vast body of Western graduates, and to the even greater body of Big Ten associates the presence of the University Band in its traditional role will satisfy a definite need. It is not so much the individual pride in a swinging mass of musicians as merely a deep seated satisfaction at seeing Harvard in full regalia, the instinctive desire for the war paint and tom-tom of inter-collegiate and in this case intersectional conflict. Goodwill is distinctly of practical value and in this action the Student Council has made a strong investment.