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Spring will hit Cambridge in a rush tonight and tomorrow with five dances slated for weekend entertainment. From the Radcliffe Freshman Prom tonight to tomorrow's Union Informal, there will be altogether five chances for the weary student to forget recent examinations...
...Jeanne had crushes on the captain of Central's football team and also on her handsome French teacher, the year when the debating society was her great pride and a broken bloomer elastic her great shame, the year of ice skating, theme writing, coonskin coats, and a senior prom that was the world's most breathlessly important event...
...family with little spare cash, he started selling newspapers at nine, later jerked sodas, delivered groceries, clerked. This didn't prevent him from graduating, at 16, with top honors in a class of 2,000 from Northeast High School-or from being class president, yearbook editor, prom chairman, debating captain and a member of the track team. That he was voted most-likely-to-succeed was anticlimactic...
...Unlike most college shows, where the undergrads write their own songs, Penn students see their Philadelphia dentist once a year for their tunes. Dr. Boland, an athletic-looking man, learned dentistry at Penn, but music by himself. In 1924 the University offered a prize for an original prom song; Boland won with one called Dreary Weather. Fred Waring, a Penn State man just starting to fame, recorded it. Boland has been grinding fillings and tunes ever since...
...There was never any thought but that he was one of the crowd. Never, that is, until one day, a week or so before some high-school prom or other, he made the mistake of asking cme of our girls whether he might escort her. The girl said yes, she would love to go with him but she must ask her mother. And I know that the girl wanted to go with Ken. . . . Well, the girl asked her mother's permission and her mother was horrified. The girl was forced to try to tell Ken why she couldn...