INVESTIGATION OF JUNIOR PROM

At the request of the faculty, a committee has been, investigating the Junior Prom with reference to time, expense, excess of late hours, and interruption of college work. Students who had attended the Prom dance and other festivities were induced to reveal the total of their expenses and to state whether this expenditure was high, low, or average, whether there is a growing tendency toward extravagance and what the sentiment would be toward transferring Junior Week to February and perhaps combining it with the Winter Carnival. Correspondence with other colleges having similar festivities gave a basis for external comparison. The average expense at Dartmouth was found to be $52, which was no more than was being spent for similar objects at smaller New England colleges, and considerably less than the average expense at the larger institutions. As a result of its investigations, the committee made the following suggestions and conclusions:

That on account of the direct opposition on the part of students, because of problems connected with organization and preparation, the operetta, and conflicts with other activities, the time of Junior Week be for the present unchanged.

. That since the matter of expense is largely an individual and personal affair. since the necessary expense is relatively small and wholly reasonable, and since the committee sees no increase in extravagance and luxury beyond the corresponding advance in wealth and style of living of the student-body, no regulation of expense of the individual be undertaken.

Although statistics show the absences during Junior Week to be nearly three times those of the average week and about equal to those of Thanksgiving Week, these cuts are beyond the control of the faculty as they have been saved for that purpose. It is recommended, therefore, that students be held strictly to account for college work during Junior Week.

An analysis of the entire situation has led the committee to believe, taking into consideration everything and with the possible exception of late hours, the activities of Junior Week are conducted in a sane and reasonable manner.