The audience at Sanders was packed Friday night; the men on the stage wore tails. Despite their respective constrictions, both groups had a good time, for the tradition of Harvard-Yale Concerts was interpreted in liberal fashion. After an Elegy and Bach Cantata, the Harvard Club launched into several choruses from "Patience" and the audience caught on: they were to enjoy themselves, not to appraise. Whereupon the two groups of singers pushed into their concert with a gusto that belied the forbidding impressions created by their formal stance and ceremonial dress.

Folk songs composed the bulk of the program, numbers from Latin America, from England and America, and from the Yale Song Book. The first portion ended with a swirl in Randall Thompson's "Tarantella," conducted by the composer and sung enthusiastically, if not distinctly, by the two Glee Clubs. After the intermission, the Yale group did a moving interpretation of the cowboy song "Old Paint," but they waited till their "Deitsch Company," an old drinking song, to bring down the house. The double yodel featured here was at once carefree and harmonious, and the Harvard group, a more Glee Club, suffered by comparison. But the lack was soon covered by their frolicsome rendition of "Gently, Johnny," sung with a lightness that seemed impossible from so large a group.

Throughout the evening, each Club tried to out-do the other and make very clear who had the noblest tenor, the most resounding bass. Like the teams that followed them Saturday, the singers were "up" for this performance, and as one group finished their stint and marched off the stage, their rivals would do them one better and attack the first song with just a little more bravado and spirit. This successive trumping went on until the home club sang "Fair Harvard"; Yale had no more alma maters left and the concert was over.