Music: Intercollegiate

Carnegie Hall rang last week, as it does annually, with college songs as they are never sung at college. One after another the glee clubs of a dozen universities filed out on the stage, dropped their chins, eyed their leader and gave vent, first to a song of their own choice, then to the required piece—"The Lotus Flower," it was this year, by Robert Schumann— and last to what newsgatherers love to call an "alma mater." Music Critic Olin Dowries of the New York Times, introduced by Dr. Walter Damrosch, presided over a...

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