Word: proms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the Junior Prom and the Yale Football Game, the Jubilee is an official excuse for spending a lot of money. But it is more than that; it is a stage on the road to sophistication. A man goes to his Jubilee a Freshman thinking he is very worldly wise; he comes out--a Sophomore...
...possible additional taxes. Of the stockholders of the Steel Corporation, George F. Baker, Chairman of the First National Bank of New York, remains the largest individual investor, with 500 shares of preferred and 58,050 of common stock-worrth about $6,735,000 at present market prices. Other prom inent holders were: Lawrence C. Phipps, (junior U. S. Senator from Colorado), 5,000 preferred and 30,000 common; President Coolidge, 50 common; Judge Gary, 1,966 preferred and 661 common; John P. Morgan, 901 common...
...Junior Prom turned out to be an affair where Juniors were prominent but not predominant...
...class of 1926 and its chosen partners will swing to the rhythmic measures that once more liven Memorial. Once more will the dusty crannies and long-shadowed nooks reecho to light laughter and the patter of satin slippers on a polished floor. To each son of Harvard, the Prom--the prom of his own class--comes but once in a lifetime. But Mem has seen many--Mem has witnessed many a class at its revelry. Perhaps this is the basis of a warmer hold on old graduates than the memory of the numerous meals there consumed, in the days before...
This year's Prom is to pass into tradition at three o'clock. Last year's held rollicking career till four, and not too long ago the stroke of five saw the departure of the merry-makers...