Word: proms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes, bow-lips and an expletive vocabulary reputed to be the equal of her father's. As a débutante, she was one of the most provocative college prom girls of the Scott Fitzgeraldized era. Her second husband, Millionaire Philip Plant, caused her to desert a promising cinema and stage career...
...meaning in future years. The suitability of a chapel as a memorial is already demonstrated in the colossal failure of Memorial Hall to mean anything to Harvard men of the past few generations, except as an eating place, an examination room, and a floor for the now defunct Junior Prom...
...event that the officers of the Junior class definitely decide to call off the Junior Prom, the chairman of the Military Ball Committee has intimated that the ball will be open to members of that class, although the number of tickets available will be limited. Tickets for the affair may be reserved on application to the secretary of the dance committee at Thayer...
Good precedent for the action of the class is to be found in the gradual relinquishing of class festivals in the last few years. Despite the protests of a noisy minority, the Junior Prom passed into the limbo of traditions that have been forced into the discard by the growth of the College. The abolishment of the Sophomore Smoker is but, the natural outcome of this same trend...
...officers of the Sophomore Class have decided not to hold the customary smoker for their class this spring. In the past, other classes have found these affairs dull and wholly valueless as far as their supposed purpose of promoting class spirit goes. The Junior Prom met a similar fate, and few regretted the lost ball and brawl. These vanishing traditions of a Harvard that was once united and compact will not be missed. New traditions, more natural and more spontaneous, will no doubt spring from the smaller and more easily handled units of the House Plan...