Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a month of useless wrangling and recrimination the Union and the Houses are finally getting together in a cooperative attempt to plan weekend dances. A Union football dance during the Dartmouth weekend, the first in its history, out into a monopoly held by the inter-House committee and touched off an argument of magnificent proportions. Last week, under Student Council guidance, representatives of the inter-House Social Committee and the Union Committee agreed to agree. Although some knotty problems still face the two groups, they should reach a speedy concurrence o forestall further friction...
...Union ticket fee of $1.80 as against a $3.60 toll at the House dances was regarded as a direct attempt to divert both Freshmen and bargain hunters from the Houses. Yet both Yard and House dances were sellouts. Again; when the Union scheduled a dance on the Princeton weekend, the inter-House Committee made similar protests. They asked the Union to switch its dance to the Brown weekend, so that the Houses would be certain of a profitable "Final Fling." The Union declined, and for the second time, a bumper crop packed all the dance-floors...
...tentative plan, now under discussion, gives the Union first choice on dates in the spring and fall seasons, around which the Houses are to arrange their programs. The big issue that threatens to delay a final agreement is the extent of Union ticket sales and advertising on any weekend when both organizations will plan dances. The inter-House Committee balks at the suggestion that the Union may publicize its dance in the visiting college on these conflicting dates. Fearing that the visitors will flock to the lower-priced dance, the inter-House Committee wants Union huckstering strictly limited...
...arrangements, which started in Cambridge last weekend with several stage aspirants up from Nassau for the football game, will also see HTW's Princeton counterpart, the Theatre Intime, bring its version of Richard II to Sanders Theatre early in March...
Sole bodily damage resulting from the Cronin caterwauling fest were strained vocal cords, and Stillman infirmary reported last night that no casualties had been shipped for the Dunster Street oasis for the entire weekend...