University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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k m II K COLLEGE OF MUSIC B. Mus. OPPORTUNITIES in the musical profession have increased very noticeably in the past five years. In spite of the effect of the radio upon concerts of all kinds, the public interest in music has shown a most encouraging advance. Education has come to recognize the cultural and the mental benefits of musical training. So much so that music in the public schools of America has gained an amazing momentum. The evidence I if tlie almost universal school band and orchestra and the keen competition of the school music con- tests indicates musical activity unprecedented. In fact it may be said to have indulged in a Crusade imitating the lives and hearts of our people, par- Dean R. W . Dunham ticularly the young folks throughout this great land of ours. The purpose of our own musical activity in the College of Music is the furthering of musical culture in any possible manner. There is the active and highK- specialized training to students whose talents and tendencies have led them to enroll with us. All of our faculty members are thoroughly equipped to develop instrumentalists and vocalists professionally. Besides this particular task we have a broader and perhaps bigger task in the field of the University at large. To interest a rather busy student body in things musical is no small undertaking. Yet we do reach a group of two or three hundred students directly by means of training in the two glee clubs, the band and the orchestra. Through the medium of these organizations almost everybody on the campus receives some enjoyment. The work done in this direction is not in any sense high brow nor is it intended to be so. The enjoyment of good music of a purely entertaining nature is one of the greatest pleasures there is, and one which the College of Music appreciates and intends to foster. We started the Song Fest two years ago; the success of the competi- tions surpassed our fondest hopes. Now the music of the operetta is also under our general direction. The Musical Crusade at the University ' is thus diversified and directed into channels that ought to reach every young woman and ' oung man who has a response in his heart to music in any form. Roland W. Dunh.am. Page 24

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SUMMER QUARTER Dkan M. ( ' .. DiKii.wi T)! . IT kiidwn that in the year of our Lord IS ' .], - stiHui lortli Louis Agassiz. being a man of great accomplishments. He assembled a council of the chiefs of Har ard, ancient seat of learnini; in ( an- tabrigia. So great was this man ' s knowleflge and so ardent a zealot was he for its extending, that iu ' besought those assembled to look with fa or on an ad enturing of which no man had bethought himself up to that d,i -. As the great scholar wrought wiili them, main- were the words spoken for and against. But in the end, all were of one mind that Agassiz had a right intention in instituting in the name oflearning a bloodless crusade against the long summer vacation, hitherto held in most sacred regard b - those grim professors who devoted it to no other occupation than the amassing of facts to hi! imjiressive tomes wherel) ' their renown was spread afar: and by students who were minded to have their time in peace and quiet and dalliance therein. Loud were the outcries and furious tin- erba1 onslaughts lainiched In their stiff-necked enemies uiion the dought - knights of the new Crusade. But in the progress of time, the crowds of pilgrims with holy zeal for learning, coming in constantK from all quarters, the adversaries were forced to relinqui sh their endeavors. And now in almost every city, village and hamlet in this fair land, the banners of the victors are raised on high by immense multitudes of pilgrims during each summer covering the whole face of the countr . .• nd so it hap[)ened that in 1904, a certain counsellor going to the President of the University, thus addressed him: Sire, I would that we might join in this new Crusade, of which fair tidings come to me. Certes, said the President, it is a great thing you advise and jiropose, and well it .seems that you have in view a high enterprise. Take good heed to its doing. So it befell that very summer that Boulder beheld in her fair precincts a little band of seven- teen knights nul a chosen company of si. l - brave and adventurous youths. Who can relate the progress from this modest beginning? Be it known that in the summer just past, might be seen here an army of two hundred knights and .S,4G0 followers journe ing from far and near under the ensigns of the latter-day Crusade. Mii.o G. Dfrii. m. I ' age 2}

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SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION li. B. A. IF, AS it has been asserler!, all education is an ex- periment, it is certain that an educition for business is a true adventure. Kducational oi)i)oriunities wen- instituted first for clerK ' nien, wlio were lonjj the most important men in the communit -: and the - were generally accepted as leaders in the crusades of this life as well as in the great athenture of the next. Soon, however, the educated teacher was added to the community as a second social leader. Afterwards the list was extended to embrace other professions: and doctors and law ers were trained not onl - to utilize the specialized knowledge in their respective fields but al.so to conceal, deftb ' , their ignorance in other lines, one of the earmarks of the cducatec ' man. 1)1- AN F. A. BusHliE We ha e now grown accustomed to educated |)r()lcssi()iiai men. .Societx ' tolerates them in its good-natured way. It is even rather proud ot the la ' t that professional men ha e been compelled to enter the lists and struggle against an abstract foe before the - can actualK ' begin to operate upon a submissive public. Hut how about the business man.- ' He has al a s been self-made and has prided himself on being so. Will societ ' e er agree to enlarge the ranks ot the crusaders and admit the great mass of business men ; and, on the other hand, will the business men themselves ever submit to the discipline necessary for entrance into the exclusive ranks of the cultured.- ' The imposition of a discipline which is tolerated b - the few might prove unacceptable if imposed upon the manv. Herein lies the troublesome question, shall Mr. Business Man also be dubbed a knight of learning? This cjuestion cannot be answered positively for it in ()lves the uncertainty- of adventure. The prospective business man is not like unto others; he cannot be forced into a stereotyped training. He must pick and choose for himself, so that, if the experiment shriuld chance to be successful. he ma ' say, I did the thing myself. riu- .Schools of Business Administration all o -ei the countr - are, then, engaged in a difficult and delicate quest. If the adventure is a failure, society will drift back to its former position of uninteresting mediocrity; but if it is successful, think of its possibilities! Culture will be spread broadcast, effiiiency will become general, and societ ' will make rapid strides toward perfection! Let us press forward boldl - with this new venture. I-KI.DIKK K . . Hi siii:i . Page 2S