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Good precedent for the action of the class is to be found in the gradual relinquishing of class festivals in the last few years. Despite the protests of a noisy minority, the Junior Prom passed into the limbo of traditions that have been forced into the discard by the growth of the College. The abolishment of the Sophomore Smoker is but, the natural outcome of this same trend...
...would be more drab than a congratulatory or consolatory letter signed "Member Student Council" instead of the heart warming and personal "President" or "Secretary"? And the future Junior Class presidents have a now duty now, the annual announcement that their class will follow precedent and not have a Junior Prom. After all, the class officers are gracious adornments, symbols perhaps of an outworn tradition, but nevertheless, the front pages of the Senior Album...
University of Michigan prom trotters were under the surveillance of policemen stationed at every exit, in each smoking room and lobby of the gymnasium, lest some reveller take a drink...
...that a vote of the class as a whole on the subject would be highly appropriate, but before the ballots be sent out I would suggest that Mr. Trainer spend a little time looking into the situation and publish in your columns the arguments for and against the Prom...
Finally, in doing away with the Prom it seems as if the Junior Class officers have put themselves in the rather precarious position of being "passe", for why bother with officers if there is nothing for them to do? Rather than slip into the senility and discard of the previous class leaders I should like to suggest that they "get on the ball." Luther H. Gulick...