Music Under Professor Spalding

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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Doubtless considerations of space prevented your article of today from commenting in more detail upon Professor Spalding's career as an educator. If Harvard owes the foundation of the Division of Music to Professor Paine, its remarkable growth is due entirely to the insight and policies of Professor Spalding. He realized the extent to which "musical appreciation" might enter the lives of the general student, and his lead in this respect has been followed all over the country. He was among the first to recognize Professor Davison's capacity for interesting the undergraduate in choral music, with results which are known internationally. Under his leadership a college music department could henceforth not remain merely a school for technical study, but must extend its benefits to the whole student body. It is still perhaps too soon for Professor Spalding's work to be summarized adequately, but the main outlines of his achievements are to be found throughout the country wherever music has its proper place among the liberal arts. Edward B. Hill '94.

Cambridge, January 28, 1932.