Word: junior
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement yesterday that there was a serious doubt about the advisability of holding a Junior Dance this year was disappointing surprise to many members of the class. The Junior Prom is an old tradition at Harvard, as in most colleges, which is anticipated with pleasure. It is a pity that the indifference of a few members of the class should be more in evidence than the strong desire of many to continue the custom. It is strange that a militant move should be underway in the Sophomore class to hold a dance this year, while the Juniors should be expressing...
...word, then, the general atmosphere is such that a relatively large number of those who have not yet been leveled socially by the proposed benefits of the new House plan, is tending more and more to regret its invitations to the Junior Dance. Add this to the financial embarrassment with which all Dance Committees are faced, and the further fact that social fare palatable to the most diverse tastes is rather abundant, and the reason for attempting to sustain the breath of life in a superannuated whiff from the gay nineties seems to be ill founded. (Name withheld by request...
...announcement by the officers of the Class of 1930 that the current pertinent problem as to whether 1930 shall or shall not hold a Junior Dance this year in Memorial Hall is to be decided by the class members themselves in a referendum is the strongest indication that the advisability of going through automatically with the decadent function year by year is questioned at last...
...Junior Dance, like the old gray mare, is decidedly not what it used to be. Those who remember its halcyon days will verify this statement, and can add that since the war the spontaneous cooperation on the part of a class so necessary to the dance's success as a social affair has waned considerably. It is of course difficult for each successive class to believe that it cannot improve on the efforts of its predecessor. The paramount conviction is that Memorial Hall has, in this ultramodern age, proved the nemesis of the dance and that its success would...
Accepting Memorial Hall as the inevitable floor for the dance, it is interesting to note statistics of past dance committees on the cost and attendance of a Junior Dance. Three thousand dollars is practically the minimum figure. This means that to meet the expense three hundred couples at $8 a couple and 150 stags at $5 a stag must attend. Last year's dance, with probably more publicity than any previous affair, drew only two hundred and fifty couples and a hundred stags. Consequently the Committee lost money, even after a last minute attempt to reduce the expense to meet...