will have a novel session of summer school. They have leased a
mine in Colorado, and during' the few weeks of summer school the
students will have full charge of work and operation of the mine.
—Brown University has repealed the rule which forbids pro
fessional players on the university nine. This caused much criti
cism and comment. Yale and Princeton are determined, and they
declare their athletics shall be purely amateur.
One of the characteristics of the average American is that he
can adapt his likes to any class of music as the occasion may
demand. Thus, we see a person who has paid several dollars for
a Wagner concert the night before enjoyed with relish the next
day one of the populor songs of the present time. We quote from
an article, entitled “Popular Music,” in the Bostoniam for Feb
ruary :
It is simply a habit, I repeat, into which we have
momentarily lowered ourselves. Some of those per
sons who are loudest in their acclamations upon the
new popular songs are still to be seen listening to a
program of Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and Bach with
appreciation. But follow these same people and ob
serve them perhaps the very next evening. We may
find them at the theatre listening with the same en
thusiastic interest to some rattling - , rhythmical selec
tion from a new opera, rendered by a georgeously
attired chorus; or, if not here, we may find them in
their own homes or at some small social gathering, all
clustered around the piano singing “Mr. Dooley,”
or something similar, with great zest and apparently
with much pleasure. Let one of the group but men
tion classical music and he is hooted at and regarded
as an imposter. On the other hand, let some one
without announcing it go up to the piano and plav
EXCHANGES,
T. F. FOLTZ