Word: prom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost here. The Lampoon has indulged in its annual hoax. The Advertiser is printing more and more love scandals in its daily columns. Even the Dean feels the effects now that he has almost finished with the results of the Mid Years. The last has been heard of the Prom and its inevitable crashers. Somewhere vaguely ahead are the April Hours. Yes, perhaps the student is right, and spring is not very far over the horizon...
...Reading Room, if the number two relay man has not given the news along with the baton to the number three runner, the plaudits of the world have been wasted on greatness unfulfilled. For only then can it be believed that she is not going to the Junior Prom...
...more than one will be shining March 2. Greta of the round arms and tight curls will be there. What if it be difficult beforehand to find the leading men, or afterward to learn who were the lucky players in company-with? For it is written: As a prom committee sideshows, so shall it reap...
What homecoming is to western universities, what prom week is to academies for young ladies, what the Yale game is to Harvard--all that and more is Carnival to Dartmouth College. But there are certain requisites in order that the occasion may, be successful: the first is a quantity of snow--the better to ski with, my dear. One is told that Jupiter-Pluvius, or whoever arranges such things, has never yet failed Dartmouth College. There has always been snow for Carnival. The night may have closed on a green world but dawn was huge drifts on the white Mountains...
...seriously, at least at all social events. At the first assembly dance of the new year it was de rigueur that the feminine contingent reverse the old order by inviting the males, escorting them to the precincts of terpsichorean festivity, and paying the admittance fee. At least the masculine prom trotter was to be relieved of his anxieties, and the woman...