Word: proms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WAVES," introduced in the elaborate scene on the 11:50 back to Wellesley, perhaps the neatest piece of caricature in the two acts. Other scenes did take offs on the staff of "The New Yorker," Wellesley's knitting workroom and conditioning program, Pine Manor, and the date-lacking Junior prom. Sure, they mentioned Harvard...
Only dance at Princeton to escape the edict will be the senior Prom tentatively scheduled for January 29, the night before accelerated Seniors will graduate this year. No restriction has yet been made on attendance at this dance, but in line with the recent university policy it is expected that it will be a modest affair...
...large dances at Princeton, including next spring's Junior Prom, have been cancelled at the order of Christian Gaus, dean of the college, the Daily Princetonian reported last week. This action was in accordance with a request made last summer by Army and Navy officials that all unnecessary extra-curricular activities be abandoned, and a more recent request by the Office of Defense Transportation urging civilians not to use transportation facilities for pleasure purposes...
...Senior Prom to Be Held...
...This big Prom season is also a testimony to the labors of grey-bearded Conductor Sir Henry Wood, 73. Sir Henry, a born Londoner who drops his haitches, is a British Walter Damrosch. He started the Proms as glorified ballad concerts, raised them gradually during 48 years to a symphonic level, is credited with doing as much as any man could to make Britons music-minded. Said the London Times last fortnight by way of tribute: "He met wars with dogged persistence, changes of taste with a willing compliance. . . . We set our watches by his arrival on the rostrum...