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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1899.
Price Tren Cents.
THE JUNIOR PROM.
Fewer Visitors—Some Interesting
Figures and their Meaning.
The financial side of Nineteen Hun-
dred’s Junior Promenade presents an
aspect strangely different from that of
other promenades held within the past
several years. Last week the Commit-
tee were forced to realize that instead .
of the large surplus which each recent
Promenade Committee has held at its
disposal, the final settlement of accounts
will show an actual deficit of no mean
proportions.
The amount realized on the open sale
of boxes was some $700 less than last
year. This would seem to indicate that
the lack of support comes from the
Senior, Sophomore and Sheff. Junior
classes, inasmuch as the receipts from
the closed sale of boxes for Juniors and
Sheff. Seniors came within $70 of the
amount netted last year.
The subscriptions this year were also
unusually small, amounting to about
$1,800, as compared with $2,723 in 1808.
The box-holders met on Friday noon
and consented to the proposition of the
Committee to assess each box-holder
$3 additional. This special assessment
should cover a large part of the deficit
and it is expected that the remainder
will be met without difficulty, although
the Committee have not yet decided on
the means.
The success of a Junior Promenade
from a financial standpoint is. almost
directly dependent on the interest mani-
fested in it by the Class and the Col-
lege in general. Hence the present
lack of financiaf support has more sig-
nificance than might at first be sup-
posed. It is a fact that the number of
men actively interested in the Prome-
nade this year, that is to say those who
had guests at Promenade and Class
germans, was considerably smaller than
ithas been for some years past. Exact
figures are not available at this time,
but approximately the number of box-
holders this year, as compared with last,
shows a decrease from 172 to 155. In
1898, 40 couples danced the Senior ger-
man while the number this year fell
to 34. The attendance at the Junior
german last year was 115; this year,
95. A still greater proportional de-
crease was noted in the case of the
Sophomore german, only 40 couples
dancing, as compared with 60 in 1808.
This year however, some of the Sheff.
society germans were held on Mon-
day evening and to this fact may be
attributed in part the falling off in at-
tendance at the Junior and Sophomore
germans.
LESS MONEY PER MAN.
This pronounced decrease in the num-
ber of men who had guests at the
Promenade festivities can not be with-
out good cause. Dean Henry P.
Wright recently said that the propor-
tion of men of moderate means in the
College is greater than it has been at
any time within the past few years.
Dean Wright’s remark is thought to be
of considerable significance in this con-
nection, as the Junior Promenade would
be, by its nature, the thing most likely
to be affected by a decrease in the aver-
age wealth of the student body.
The curtailing of the Promenade fes-
tivities by the Faculty is the reason
generally assigned by the undergrad-
uates. This involved the omission af
the dances and cotillions formerly given
on Saturday night by the Junior Frater-
JUNIOR PROM COMMITTEE.
Photograph by Pach.
S. B. Camp. F. B. Adams. W.L. Chittenden. A. J. Baker. M. Douglas.
J.C. Greenway. : P. A. Rockefeller. M. Mills. |B. Johnson.
nities and the Sheffield societies. These PART 1 the patronesses were: Mrs. Albert M.
functions added considerably to the 1, A Night Off, Rosey . Young of Toledo; Mrs. Samuel Coffin
pleasures of the Prom season without Banjo Club. of New York; Mrs. Charles T. Barney
adding materially to the cost.
A.COMPARISON OF FIGURES.
A comparison of the receipts from
subscriptions and the sales of boxes
‘and chairs (the principal sources of
income), last year with close approxi-
mations for the same this year will show
the direct source of the deficit.
. 1899 = 1900
Closed sale of boxes.... $1,810 $1,740
Open sale of boxes...... 1,729 1,070
Subseriptions if. ees. ee '2,672:.1,800
Sale of chairs, dance or-
UO LES DAgean aera se OR 400
THE PROM ITSELF.
The Prom was officially opened on
Monday night with the Concert by th
Glee Club in the Hyperion.
Sheehan, 1901 L.S., the leader of the
Club, was absent owing to an attack of
appendicitis and H. M. Dewey, ’9?, took
his place in the quartette.. The Fresh-
men did nothing more objectionable
than to spill finely cut tissue paper and
shoot small cards into the audience,
from the upper balcony and confined
these efforts to the time between the
numbers. During the concert a large
cardboard man, bearing the numerals
“T902” was lowered in front of the
stage, where by means of cords he was
made to do some fantastic and amusing
dances.
The program follows:
2. Brave Mother Yale,
Merrill, ’98, Shepard
3. Italianischer Salat, Genée
Mr. Schneeloch and Club.
4. Stein Song, “tax Billard
5. Tutti Frutti, :
Glee and Banjo Clubs.
Part HII,
I. Hungarian Dance, Brahms
Mandolin Club.
2. The Goslings, Beidge
3. Love Song, Nevin
Mr. Simmons and Club.
4. Cotton Blossoms, Hall
Banjo Club.
5. Negro Melodies,
Mr. Douglas. Mr. Dewey.
Mr. Noble. Mr. Lyon.
Part III.
1. Medley, Austin
Mandolin Club.
2. Bells of Yale, Mason, 99; Ives, ’98
Mr. Schneeloch and Clubs.
Son of a Gambolier, Carmen-Yalense
. Bright College Years, Durant, ’81
AY
THE JUNIOR GERMAN.
The Junior german took place in
Alumni Hall immediately after the
Prom Concert on Monday, January 23d.
There were four favor figures and one
souvenir figure. The german was led
by F. B. Adams and S. B. Camp.
About one hundred couples danced and
of New York; Mrs. W. W. Farnam
of New Haven; Mrs. D. C. Barton of
Winsted, Conn.; Mrs. W. H.. Moseley
of New Haven; Mrs. G. C. Greenway
of Hot Springs, Ark. ,
The following took part: W. S. Cof-
fin with Miss Coffin of New York; A.
VanderVeer with Miss Stott. of Al-
bany, N. Y.; S, M. Wood with Miss
Miller of Mount Vernon, N. Y.; W. J.
Vogeler with Miss Vogeler of Balti-
more; H. C. Heinz with Miss Mc-
Lean of Pittsburg, Pa.; E. Alexander
with Miss Wilson of New Haven; J.
W. Barney with Miss Potter of New
York; L. C. Hedge with Miss Swift
of Detroit; F. D. Cheney with Miss
Cheney of South Manchester, Conn.;
R. Russell with Miss Hubbell of Green-
wich, Conn.; H. P. Wood with Miss
Wood of Gloversville, N. Y.; H. Moore
with Miss Cassard of Baltimore; F. B.
Adams with Miss Young of Richmond,
Va.; A. J. Baker with Miss Brown of
Yonkers, N. Y.; M. Douglas with Miss
Douglas of Albany, N. Y.; W. E. Minor
with Miss H. Seeley of Cincinnati; M.
A. Stone with Miss Locke of New York;
W. B. Williams with Miss Griscom of
Philadelphia; W. H. Averell, Jr., with
Miss Averell of Rochester, N. Y.; R.
M. Patterson with Miss M. Brinley ot
Philadelphia; B. Johnston with Miss
Bushnell of Plainfield, N. J.; A. H.
Graves with Miss Noel of St. Louis;
W. Buck with Miss Ney of Hartford,
Conn.; W. L. Chittenden with Miss
Johnson of Washington; M. Mills with
