me or a similar organization
appears as the "Amateur Musical Club" the following year. The same issue
of the _Palladium_ also lists a University Choir of four persons. After
that time hardly a year passes without vocal and instrumental musical
organizations in some form; in 1863 we have the "Junior Glee Club," and
the "Sophomore AEolians," while in 1865 a "Cremona Club" appears. In
1867-68 the first "University Glee Club" of eight members was organized
and in 1870, the senior year of its members, it gave some twenty-six
most successful concerts throughout the State. They appeared in
University caps, apparently something entirely new, as some thought they
were members of a fire company, while others "mistook them for Arabs
from Forepaugh's circus." The example set by this successful club, to
which belongs the credit of elevating and popularizing college songs,
was not immediately followed, however, and there were several years when
the glee club was dormant. With its effectual revival in 1884, the
history of the University Glee Club has been continuous to the present
time. It was supplemented in 1889-90 by the Banjo Club and in 1895 and
1896 by the Mandolin Club--and after that time the triple organization
went by the name of the University Musical Clubs. The first extended
trip was taken in 1890 when the organization visited several Michigan
cities, and also Chicago, Madison, Minneapolis, and St. Paul. In 1896
the trip went as far afield as Salt Lake City, an extensive itinerary
which crippled more than one cash balance. Since that time, under more
careful management, several most successful trips have been made to the
Pacific Coast.

The various University orchestras and musical clubs supplied the
University's needs until, in 1895, the University Band was organized.
This suffered a precarious existence, though much appreciated by the
students, until in 1914 the Regents made an appropriation for its
support which enabled it to blossom out as one of the most creditable
college bands in any American University. Not only does it play at all
football and baseball games, but it has come to be indispensable during
such occasions as the annual Commencement.

Though not strictly a student organization, the University Musical
Society and the Choral Union, since their organization in 1879-80, have
had as their main object the musical welfare of the student body, and so
successful have they been in their effort, that Ann Arbor ha