THE SOUL OF LOVE

Tonight occurs the fourth of the concerts given by the Freshman Players, an organization to be welcomed at a time when classical music is deriving too little active undergraduate support. Although having its origin in the College employment office, it offers an unusually satisfactory mode of helping a few men over the financial obstacles of higher education. Certainly more attractive superficially than the usual student positions which involve the climbing of innumerable staircases or the washing of many dishes, the orchestra also offers training in an art which is valuable both financially and esthetically in after life.

The desirability of an organization capable of frequently offering chamber music to Harvard students cannot be overestimated. Connoisseurs are agreed and novices will admit that only from a familiarity with music springs its greatest rewards. Chamber music especially, with its peculiar dependence on form rather than the colorful effects possible to a large orchestra must be known to be appreciated. Although Harvard is within a few miles of some of the most active concert halls in the world, it is always an annoyance and often an impossibility for her students to make the effort necessary to reach them. Only two or three times a year, to hear a particularly well known artist, does the reasonably enthusiastic music lover gain the lower frontier of Huntington avenue. Such infrequent exposure to one of the noblest, of the fine arts is not enough to make any appreciable difference in one's knowledge. But at last the mountain, or at any rate a very satisfactory foothill, has come to Mohammed, and henceforth only actual indifference to music can excuse a lack of familiarity on the part of Harvard men.