JUNIOR PROM WILL BE DISCONTINUED BY CLASS OF 1931

The Junior Prom, for years the only organized winter social function at Harvard, has been discontinued according to an announcement made last night by J. N. Trainer '31, president of the Junior Class. The decision to abandon the traditional dance came as a result of a conference with the other officers of the class and a through perusal of the records of last year's Prom committee according to Trainer.

The discontinuance of the Prom comes as no surprise to those who followed the controversy on the subject last year. The general feeling of opinion of the class of 1929 was that Memorial Hall the traditional scene of the Junior social event was not a fitting accommodation for a successful dance. The next alternative considered, a Boston dance hall, was vetoed by the College authorities; and recourse was finally had to be Union. Expressions of dissatisfaction, with the theory and past experience of the dance were so numerous throughout the controversy that a poll was taken to determine the consensus, of class opinion. The result was indecisive on account of the meagre response to the ballots sent out, but it was nevertheless decided to go on with the affair inasmuch as a majority of the votes received were in favor of such a course of action.

The Prom itself was held on the night of March 15 in the Union and lost about $600 which had to be made up out of class funds. In view of these facts, and considering the continuously declining interest in the affair which the successive Junior classes of the past five or six years have shown, it was thought wisest to drop the Prom completely this year, thus putting a definite end to the movement which almost brought about the abandonment of the scheme a year ago.