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Music is to-day considered one of the leading professions and ranks high as an art. While it is not the aim and purpose at Carlisle to train boys and girls solely for the profession or to make artists of them, why should it be discouraged in cases which show marked talent? The pupil does not only get the training in music, but this linked to the trade or other work taken up by the student, certainly better prepares such an one to meet the problems of life and earn a livelihood.

The musical influence has a tendency to develop the finer qualities in the natures of the students, and this means much to the Indian.

The U. S. Carlisle Indian Band, has an international reputation, its services not only being sought for the great events in this country such as the Columbian Exposition, Pan-American Exposition, National and State Inaugural exercises and other important affairs, but in Europe also, negotiations having been entered into for the band to appear at the Paris Exposition.

Last summer for the first time it played an engagement at the famous and fashionable ocean resort at Long Branch, N.J., being engaged by the City to give two free concerts daily to the public. So well pleased were the City authorities with the services of the band that it was engaged for this year at a price far in advance of the compensation of last season.

The boys are paid for these services in proportion to what they would earn if they went to work, under the outing system, besides having advantage of a good time and a healthful outing, including plenty of good salt air and an ocean dip twice a day. These are practical experiences whi h place these boys in a position to compete with their white brother in a musical way, also giving them many social advantages. In conjunction with the band there is an orchestra which plays for the school entertainments and Sunday services.

The vocal department which includes the class work and singing exercises, where all are taught the rudiments of music. Each class meets twice a week for this purpose and songs are taught which are sung by

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the entire school at the monthly school entertainments, with special musical services for Christmas, Easter and other holidays.

Girls' choruses and boys' quartets and choruses which sing at the Y. W. C. A and Y. M. C. A. meetings and on the different society programs, all add variety and pleasure to the students' life. Private instruction on piano and violin is also given to those who show talent on these instruments. Our aim is practical, to give them enough training so that they may be able to play for religious services and little entertainments when they return home.

Athletics

Recognizing that all students, and especially Indian students who are used to an out-of-door life, and are kept in-doors in school and in the shops a large part of the day, need plenty of out door exercise and recreation, the authorities of the Carlisle School have encouraged athletic sports. Representative teams are equipped and maintained in the various branches of college sport, which compete with representatives of other educational institutions, including our largest universities and colleges, and the receipts from these contests. contrary to the general rule, provide funds, which through economic management, not only make athletics at the school self-supporting, but also have made if possible to provide a well equipped athletic field, a play ground, training quarters and other permanent improvements which benefit the school in other ways than in athletics, and this is done without charging the students and employes an admission to the contests which are held at home.

Athletic sports are probably more generally participated in by the students at Carlisle than any other educational institution in the country. All the shops have their athletic teams, the various classes compete against each other, and the small boys organize junior teams, while the girls play basket ball, tennis and