Word: prom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week trustees picked a man to make the try. He was Allan Vanderhoef Heely. 37, tall, husky, popular assistant dean at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass. Son of a Manhattan banker, Head Master Heely prepared at Andover, went to Yale. There he was an editor of the Record, Junior Prom committee chairman, Student Council member and voted the most popular man in his class. Five years in Manhattan convinced him that he was cut out for neither the advertising nor the dry goods business. Back to Andover went he in 1924 to teach English, indulge his taste for "books...
...Milwaukee, Wis., graduate of Riverside High School. He is the son of Robert F. Vogt, consulting engineer. He was the president of the debating society and the German Club, program chairman of the Science Club, associate editor of the school paper, junior class treasurer and manager of the junior prom. He has constructed electrical and mechanical devices in his laboratory at home, and has made a collection of Wisconsin plant galls and geological specimens. He intends to enter engineering or other scientific work...
...girl: **** is not only the cream in our coffee, she is also the kick in our cocktall. She has acutely up to the minute clothes and a stream-line figure upon which to hang them. Favorite garment: ankle strap: occupation: prom trotter...
...Treasury has recently recognized that a taxpayer who acts on a lawyer's advice may be making what is in his judgment an honest return, so this year taxpayers are asked to file an affidavit stating who gave them the advice. The theory is that the Treasury will disbar prom practice before it all those lawyers who habitually advise taxpayers whose returns are found in error...
...other classes hold positions which are almost solely honorary. With the coming of the House Plan, class spirit inevitably tends to die out and upperclassmen naturally feel that their first allegiance is to their House. So also, the upper classes have no social functions as classes, since the Junior Prom, the last survivor, was dropped some years ago. With the advent of the Houses, a new social life, with dances, dinners, and entertainments, has sprung up within their walls...