Word: prom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tradition has neither stabilized nor sanctified the present three annual affairs, one of which is fast developing into an incubus. The spirit which fills the gymnasiums of state universities with a sympathetic mass of jazz-appreciators and inspires the grand march with the prom chairman and the lucky girl at its head in a confetti setting is not transferrable to Memorial Hall. The happy solution of the problem would be for the blaise Juniors to pass over their dance to the social Sophomores who might profit by early experience or carry on the Jubilee tradition throughout their college career...
...Nebraska. The latter had announced that a special session was promised, but had been promptly contradicted by Hoover headquarters. After receiving Senator Borah, Nominee Hoover was still reluctant bui the Borah pressure was great. Senator Norris had "bolted." The northwest looked dangerous. Nomi nee Hoover finally issued a guarded prom ise for the special session...
Varsity. After years of rah-rah pictures, of sporting seniors in plaid pants with suites at the Ritz, of the prom girl, the fresh freshman, of cabalistic tortures in the basement of the Delta Nu house. of winning the game for dear old Dearold. comes a college picture in which real college boys, bedrooms, dining halls and bleachers are photographed, and as an accompaniment to which an authentic Princeton locomotive and the song "One Keg of Beer for the Four of Us," sung by authentic Princeton undergraduates, is recorded on a sound device...
...wonder that little class spirit or even class consciousness exists in the student body as a whole. Even in the school of arts there was so little cohesion among the more than 300 seniors that all the traditional Class Day features had to be abandoned except the senior prom. Only twenty seniors had shown themselves sufficiently interested to buy tickets to the Class Day exercises as planned...
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...