Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...customary discussion of younger generation v. older generation and of adolescent sex-difficulties was attended to by U. S. Representatives from Yale University. Said Dr. Luther Allan Weigle, dean-elect of the Yale School of Divinity: "If the older generation is motor-mad, radio-ragged, jumping with jazz and hungry with lust, we may expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice...
...Despite the unreasonableness of Admiral Collard's request, the band was dismissed and a jazz band summoned. The attack on the bandmaster caused great dissatisfaction among the lower deck and intense indignation among the officers organizing the dance...
...will celebrate in an entirely different manner from the Class of 1918, the pioneer in Freshman Jubilees. For during the 13 years which have elapsed since the initial Jubilee, the function has evolved from a semi-concert for the entertainment of fond parents and relatives to a typical jazz frolic beneath multicolored lights to the tune of modern syncopation...
...most notable thing in connection with the Jubilee held in 1921 by the class of 1924 was the late hour at which it terminated. Not until 3 o'clock did the strains of jazz diminish in the vicinity of the quadrangle and the lights go out. Gore had succeeded in convincing the judges that its vocalists were the better of the interdormitory singers. Next year the class of 1925 again celebrated until the matutinal hour of 3 o'clock, and furthermore supplemented its Jubilee with five acts of vaudeville from the Keith Circuit. No longer was the Jubilee the haunt...
From 1923 on the Jubilee continued to decline from a cultural afternoon concert to a typical jazz party for the first year men and their prom-trotting friends. The dormitory singers continued to compete, but they attracted less and less attention. At the Jubilee of the class of 1927 in 1924, red, yellow, and green lanterns, music, laughter, and one of the largest crowds of merry-makers on record detracted from the effectiveness of the winning Smith Halls chorus. In 1925 the singers attracted even less interest, and the class of 1929 saw them fade from the picture...