AN ITEM OR TWO
H. E. Booma '30, Dartmouth end, made the first score of the 19-7 victory of the Eastern All-Star football eleven over the Western team in San Francisco on New Year's day. He scored a touchdown on receiving a pass from Peters, Illinois quarterback, and completing the five yards to the final white line. Booma is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
The Alpha Delta Phi fraternity presented the Second Shepherds' Play before a group of 150 invited guests, including President Hopkins, in the chapter house just before vacation. This effort received commendation as a dramatic performance, but especially as an innovation, introducing into the realm of fraternity activity a worthwhile field of effort.
It was voted at the annual meeting of the Hanover branch of the American Red Cross, held recently, to contribute $500 to establish a fund similar to those created by Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Hall, donors of Dick's House, and others for the relief of needy students confined in Dick's House. It was further voted that 25 percent of the total amount contributed each year to the Red Cross by undergraduates be added to this fund. It was stipulated that the principal of the fund or the interest only might be used to assist Dick's House patients in need of financial assistance, according to the discretion of the College.
During the Christmas holidays the Barbary Coast dance orchestra made a cruise through the West Indies on the Cunard liner S. S. Carmania. They left New York City on December 27, making calls at Havana, Cuba, and Nassau. The company with which the orchestra signed had chosen the Barbary Coast from a very large group of eastern college orchestras. The band returned to New York City on January 5.
The Green Key has distributed a questionnaire concerning the support which would be given to a junior prom in the spring, and has drawn up tentative plans. The project seems now to be resting in the limbus between the things that definitely will happen and the things that definitely won't.
