The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-03

demic Subjects" and at Lombard col
lege, Galesburg, ILL.,, ''the students in
our music school are all above average
in their academic work."
Students as Leaders.
Forty-six per cent of the colleges
reported band and orchestra work as
part of their school curriculum. Five
per cent of the total enrolment of the
colleges are members Of college bands
and orchestras, of which IS per cent
are women students, with the girls
playing almost exclusively in orches-
tras. Leaders for these college bands
are drawn for the most part from the
faculty ranks, though some colleges
use students as leaders and another
small group goes outside for leader
talent.
Playing in the college orchestra is
somewhat more popular than the band
with the boys as well as girls. Ap-
proximately 10 per cent of college stu
dents who play an instrument in the
college band or orchestra end up
eventually In the ranks of professional
musicians.
"Horn Their Way Through"
"Horning ones way through college"
compares very favorably with other
methods of self-support through the
college years, according to the college
executives contributing to the survey.
Despite. the comparatively limited op-
portunities offered in the average col
lege town, fully one-fourth of all the
students playing in the college bands
and orchestras are paying for their
education with their instruments.
Students earnings range all the way
from board and room, two-dollar-an-
hour tuition fee, and up to two thou
sand dollars year. Twelve per cent
of the college executives in the sur
vey are of the opinion that playing
ones way through school pays better
than other means; another IL per
cent thought it offered an easier way
to make ones way through, while a
goodly number Of others said that it
interfered least with the students
school work.
Saxophone Rates High.
Among those playing their way
through college, the violin comes first
in the preference of instruments.
The saxophone is second choice of
college players, but seventh with girl
musicians. Piano is the second ia
vorite instrument with the girls, and
third with the boys. Cornet comes
fourth in the preference Of both the
young men and women. Organ is the
next favorite with the boys, and flute
with the girls. Other instruments in
the order Of favor with the young
men are the trumpet, the trombone,
the horn, drum, banjo and mandolin.
With the girls, it is the drum. clarinet,
trombone, harp, banjo, trumpet, organ
and mandolin.
A striking fact brought out in the
survey was the close relation be-
tween music and student leadership.
Fully 40 per cent of all the outstand-
ing college students class presidents.
student leaders. ETC., are reported to
be playing some kind of an instru-
ment.
Music Fights Crime.
That music is the greatest deterrent
to crime, Is the opinion voiced by the
dean of the college of music of New
York university, who wrote: 'If we
were to organize band or orchestra
in every public school. high school,
college. university, boys or girls club,
or place an instrument into the hands
of every boy or girl at an age when
understanding and appreciation be-
come evident so that the child's mind
is aroused sufficiently to make him
want to excel in the instrument
which he likes best, believe that we
would have, in from ten to fifteen
years, from 90 to 75 per cent less dope
fiends. criminals and gamblers In the
United States"