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...Dance. The most questionable element, of course, is the financial outcome of such an enterprise, if it is to be undertaken. The mere fact that a vote is being taken in the matter has already reduced the possibilities of its successful outcome. Juniors are beginning to conceive of a Prom, which, due to lack of financial support, will gather them in a cold hall and furnish them with bad music; perhaps they will starve to death before the clock strikes...
...questions are contained on the card to be returned the first of which is "Do you want a Junior Prom" and the second. "Would you attend if there were one." Although an affirmative answer to the latter question is not to be considered a pledge, the class officers have appealed for careful consideration of it before signifying the preference, in order that the completed referendum may be a satisfactory test of the advisability of having a Junior Dance this year...
...decision on the Junior Prom will depend upon the will of the majority of the Junior class, but it is hoped that the individual in deciding, will give adequate attention to a deserving question...
...excellent reasons for doing so. Our willingness to relegate this tradition manifests lassitude and pecuniary "tightness" since the reasons brought forth for its dismissal include lack of interest and added expense. It is in our hands either to acknowledge defeat before effort or to make a successful Junior Prom one of the highlights of the class of 1930. Its success, needless to say, rests upon wholehearted support and its result is a reflection upon our class. G. C. Holbrook...
...learned scholar who contributed to your columns yesterday has given us a working foundation for solving the weighty issue of the Junior Prom. He decided that the constituency of the 1929 affair was representative of the class as a whole, but that at the same time the grand total of those whom he would like to consider representative was negligible. Now although such a conclusion may sound facetious, there is a chance that it may be mathematically possible. To get at the truth, why not conduct a scientific experiment as follows...