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...group of Princeton students, led by an enthusiastic young clergyman, invited a small number of Sarah Lawrence stu dents of similar tastes to join them for a weekend. They went to a ball game, tramped the countryside together and kept almost 'prom' hours in their eagerness to discuss current social and religious problems. ... I believe there is a future for the intercollegiate weekend for informal discussions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Design | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Reynold's an Artic Shaw imitator. . . Sonny Burke, a Duke University product who does just as well as his predecessor, Les Brown, is playing at the Atlantic Ballroom in Revere. Good dance music and quite acceptable swing. . . And don't forget that Jimmy Dorsey is playing the MIT Sophomore Prom tonight at the Copley Plaza. If you are a fast talker, you might be able to wangle your way into this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

...three topnotch bands pull into town today. Jimmy Dorsey, Les Brown, and Sonny Burke attract in the order named, the last two being here for several weeks, Jimmy doing a series of one-nighters starting tonight at Roseland State and ending up next Friday at the MIT Sophomore Prom...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...again last year Harvard wired Caniff for a picture, got it, won. By this time Yale was beginning to feel that it was being jinxed, and so last fall Yale's junior prom committee wrote to Cartoonist Caniff and demanded a picture for Eli. Caniff knocked off a quick sketch of The Dragon Lady, which the committee blew up to enormous proportions and used as a wall decoration at the prom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Harvard and the Pirates | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Class, nearly to a man, imported "the-girl-from-back-home." Of these a vast majority were brunettes with only a few blondes and a lonely red-haired girl. For 50 per cent of the class it was their first college prom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST. BONAVENTURE PROM NON-JITTERBUG AFFAIR | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

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