THE PRESS

Unlike any other man's college in the U. S., Harvard has no organized social life. It has no Carnival like Dartmouth, no House-Party Week-end like Princeton. The average crop-haired Harvard youth will probably tell you with great condescension that this is due to Harvard's vast indifference to such carryings-on. Don't believe it. The reason for Harvard's unique social existence is that it lies but eight minutes by subway from Boston, a city with a notable absence of night-club life, a notable presence of society life. From October to June a stream of debuts and assemblies, as the "Friday Evenings" at the Hotel Somerset, keeps the average Harvard man busy and gay. Harvard men monopolize Boston parties. Therefore they can see no reason to start rival parties of their own in Cambridge.

This does not mean that Cambridge life is monastic. There are many dances throughout the year. But most of them are small, available only to a specified few. Only once a year is there a party in the true "college" sense--the Freshman Jubilee, late in May. It is the great Freshman Class dance. Since Freshman classes now number about 1,000 each year, the Jubilee is always a huge, sprawling affair with two orchestras, usually given in a huge, sprawling building, the Union, near the Yard. (Bear in mind that Harvard has a Yard, not a campus. All within hearing will screech if you call it a campus.) . . . . .

The rest of the year at Harvard, parties center about athletics. In the Fall this year there will be four football games--West Point, Dartmouth, Army, and Yale--worth going to . . . . --Bryn Mawr's Guide Book