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Tradition has neither stabilized nor sanctified the present three annual affairs, one of which is fast developing into an incubus. The spirit which fills the gymnasiums of state universities with a sympathetic mass of jazz-appreciators and inspires the grand march with the prom chairman and the lucky girl at its head in a confetti setting is not transferrable to Memorial Hall. The happy solution of the problem would be for the blaise Juniors to pass over their dance to the social Sophomores who might profit by early experience or carry on the Jubilee tradition throughout their college career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR DANCING SONS | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...petition for a Sophomore Prom is being circulated among members of the Class of 1931 by a group of interested Sophomores. Already 135 signatures have been placed on the petition, which will ultimately be presented to the class officers for consideration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORES ASK FOR CLASS PROM | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...Inasmuch as the Seniors have their Spread, the Juniors their Prom, and the Freshmen their Jubilee, we, the undersigned, believe that the Sophomores should have a dance, and will try to attend such a function if it takes place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORES ASK FOR CLASS PROM | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...Nebraska. The latter had announced that a special session was promised, but had been promptly contradicted by Hoover headquarters. After receiving Senator Borah, Nominee Hoover was still reluctant bui the Borah pressure was great. Senator Norris had "bolted." The northwest looked dangerous. Nomi nee Hoover finally issued a guarded prom ise for the special session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaigners | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Varsity. After years of rah-rah pictures, of sporting seniors in plaid pants with suites at the Ritz, of the prom girl, the fresh freshman, of cabalistic tortures in the basement of the Delta Nu house. of winning the game for dear old Dearold. comes a college picture in which real college boys, bedrooms, dining halls and bleachers are photographed, and as an accompaniment to which an authentic Princeton locomotive and the song "One Keg of Beer for the Four of Us," sung by authentic Princeton undergraduates, is recorded on a sound device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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