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...Should a Junior Prom be held this year...
Last year a movement was started suggesting a Sophomore dance for the class of 1931. It brought forth comments that a Sophomore dance was not traditional and that the following year would bring forth the traditional Junior Prom...
Recently (a month ago) President Trainor published a notice to the effect that no Junior Prom would be held in 1930. The principal reason given was that the 1929 Prom was a financial failure. It has also been brought to light that the Freshman Jubilee of the class of 1931 fared badly financially. All of this seems strange--that all Harvard social functions should fall. Is it because of poor management? Is it necessary that most of the class should suffer, because of the failure of certain individuals to manage affairs correctly. Or is it because an insufficient amount...
Yale, true to tradition, held its Junior Prom two weeks ago. From Press notices it appeared to be a social success and something to be remembered by the Fair friends of the Class of 1931. True to tradition, Columbia will hold its Junior Prom the last of this month, even though the bids are to cost $15 each. Evidently tradition to them is not costly, despite that price...
...enormously increased the emphasis on drinking as a part of the extra-curricular activity that a revulsion is already in embryo. In the future sobriety will come into vogue; the advantages of the sober or partially, sober over the obviously influenced will obtain due publicity; and the prom-trotter of tomorrow will no longer be forced to battle against an intoxication more sure though less subtle than that induced by her natural talents. The Michigan authorities are to be congratulated for so neatly nipping this potential movement in the bud by an assertion of power from on high...