Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan. Objections of such sort can be diplomatically overcome. The Student Council committee has shown rare wisdom is insisting on the proper procedure. Although their rough sketch shows defects (for instance, the chapel would probably be better situated where the second housing unit is planned, and an octagon might prove more suitable for the lot on which the fourth unit is to go, since there must be ready access to the new yard) these will vanish under such attention as the committee hopes to bring to the matter. The architects may well look to their laurels when undergraduates show more...
...illness of R. C. Walker '31 will prove a severe handicap to the Junior University aggregation on which he has been playing a stellar game all season in number one position. His place will be taken by F. A. Vanderlip...
...Wellesley girl hears a record played in the room next door, she buys a record of a different sort. This does not, however, prove Wellesley girls are miserly. They merely dislike to own anything similar to another's possession...
Tastes change so rapidly that "hits" come and go within a week. College buyers are always ahead of the market, and prove fickle in the extreme. Eccentricity makes a forecast of musical sales impossible, as frequently the students fall to accept songs rated as certain favorites. Sometimes they give vogue to a record by their patronage...
...unstable realm of Harvard terpsichorean celebrations. Year after year there has been a steady decline in interest in the Junior dance involving natural financial embarrassment for the Committee and requiring inroads into the class funds. From the social point of view, likewise, the third year dance has tended to prove itself a white elephant, owing to the waning social homogeneity of a class, especially after its initial year. In short, the quicker it is recognized that the class promenade, a by-product of rampant collegiatism, is destined not to flourish at Harvard the better...