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Interesting in the light of recent anti-prohibition furor is the report of dry campaigning in the University of Michigan. This year, at least, the success of Ann Arbor's gargantuan and perennial Prom will not depend upon the quality of the neighborhood boot-legger, for when the long expected day arrives, College watchmen reinforced by local police will guard the dark corners where erring stags were won't to drink their fill. It is said that none but the brave deserve the fair and brave indeed will be the undergraduate who under threat of expulsion finds means whereby...
...suspension of the junior promenade. If Harvard has seen fit to take that step, we think the significance should be looked into by the proper authorities at that institution. There was once a typical attitude supposedly engendered by the Harvard training called Harvard indifference. The suspension of the Harvard prom must be a renaissance in a peculiarly terrible form of that phenomenon. Young men who voluntarily forego the pleasure of merely gazing upon these annual migrations of beauty, not to mention mingling in them and conversing with their members, are, in our opinion, young men of decidedly poor judgement...
...Junior Prom, for years the only organized winter social function at Harvard, has been discontinued according to an announcement made last night by J. N. Trainer '31, president of the Junior Class. The decision to abandon the traditional dance came as a result of a conference with the other officers of the class and a through perusal of the records of last year's Prom committee according to Trainer...
...discontinuance of the Prom comes as no surprise to those who followed the controversy on the subject last year. The general feeling of opinion of the class of 1929 was that Memorial Hall the traditional scene of the Junior social event was not a fitting accommodation for a successful dance. The next alternative considered, a Boston dance hall, was vetoed by the College authorities; and recourse was finally had to be Union. Expressions of dissatisfaction, with the theory and past experience of the dance were so numerous throughout the controversy that a poll was taken to determine the consensus...
...Prom itself was held on the night of March 15 in the Union and lost about $600 which had to be made up out of class funds. In view of these facts, and considering the continuously declining interest in the affair which the successive Junior classes of the past five or six years have shown, it was thought wisest to drop the Prom completely this year, thus putting a definite end to the movement which almost brought about the abandonment of the scheme a year...