Word: proms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussing the Class Dance question, let's keep "Joe College" out of the picture. We want no rah-rah affair, but there is nothing to prove that a Junior Prom week-end at Harvard would take on the aspect of a University of Miami brawl. Hobart A. Lerner...
...name" band; a week end of frolic with the one girl, enticed from afar by the promise of Jimmy Dorsey or Benny Goodman; the opportunity for a party of such proportions that even "Life" might come--this is the picture often painted of a single, monumental class prom. Now that the House Committees are considering abandonment of the costly but not quite sensational $800 band--abandonment of the attempt partially to satiate the jitterbug enthusiasm of Harvard name-band devotees--and acceptance of the smaller, restricted House dances, the prom has again become an issue...
...large class affair a case can be drawn up. At present, neither the extreme jitterbug nor the small-dance advocate is pleased by the attempt to compromise on a "three-quarters good" orchestra. Were a single Junior prom, similar to the Jubilee, to be held, the ever-recurring demand for a big name would be satisfied; and at the same time there would no longer be any legitimate protest against the simple, "atmospheric," restricted dance. Jitterbugs would have their big time, the girl from Cleveland or Atlanta could be imported, and Harvard would yearly have a taste of the elite...
...institution as heterogeneous as Harvard; that brand of indifference arising out of the cross-sectional character of the undergraduate body is generally thought to be in conflict with the homogeneous collegiatism essential to a successful class affair. Perhaps more rational is the fear that a single prom of Cecil B. DeMille proportions would appeal only to a limited class of persons, and thus actually would not be a "class" dance--in the usual sense--at all. Miscellaneous objections to the unwieldiness of the affair, the absence of spirit except of the "colossal" sort, the danger of unpleasant notoriety, are heard...
...eastern colleges has warned its prom committees that no swing will be tolerated at official school dances. If this sort of thing continues, news reports will soon read...