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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...created about the same sensation in the Colony as would be aroused in the country today if President Lowell should announce his adherence to communism. For the Baptists were the Bolsheviks of that era; their wild orgies at Nunster, and the attempt of John of Leyden to overturn the State, were known to everyone. Just so today many good people see a necessary connection between denying infant baptism and destroying the basis of society. Of course the assumption that Henry Dunster would follow after John of Leyden was just as absurd as the assumption held by many loyal Harvard graduates...
...attitude, no one will feel concerned or will deny that the petition presents a problem which 1931 alone is capable of setting to its satisfaction. It remains for the officers and the members themselves to decide whether or not the class as a whole is unhappy over the present state of affairs and desires to emulate the classes which can boast an annual gala festivity, as such affairs are blazoned in newspaper headlines...
Sentiment having been worked up to the desired pitch, the logical thing for the Sophomores to do is to investigate the financial and social state of the dances of which they are envious. The Jubilee, heralded by nebulous publicity throughout the first year and coming at the time when a class has attained its acme as an entity, is usually a financial success in spite of its nondescript social category. Like it, the Senior Spread comes at an advantageous time, and largely in its capacity as an entertainment for the Commencement crowd is assured of enough support to make...
...investigation of the trend taken by recent Junior dances would no doubt have the effect of placing the 1930 dance in a state of jeopardy rather than initiating a new venture into the 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...
Tradition has neither stabilized nor sanctified the present three annual affairs, one of which is fast developing into an incubus. The spirit which fills the gymnasiums of state universities with a sympathetic mass of jazz-appreciators and inspires the grand march with the prom chairman and the lucky girl at its head in a confetti setting is not transferrable to Memorial Hall. The happy solution of the problem would be for the blaise Juniors to pass over their dance to the social Sophomores who might profit by early experience or carry on the Jubilee tradition throughout their college career...