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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

In your editorial, "Our Dancing Sons", in yesterdays' CRIMSON, you express the view that the causes of the decline in the interest in Junior Proms of recent years are chiefly two: (1) The expense; and (2) the waning social homogeneity of a class after its initial year. I think that these causes are only minor.

The expense is little more than that which is incurred on a theatre party at a good musical comedy followed by a little dancing at one of the better night-clubs. As for the homogeneity--the Business School has dances under the auspices of the Gaydon Club which are generally very well attended and otherwise successful. Yet, obviously, these men have no more--probably less, in fact--to hold them together than do the members of the Junior Class:

But the key-note would seem to be the return for the money--the dance itself. If the dance is good enough, the expense will have little effect on the numbers. Now the requirements for a good dance are a good hall and a good orchestra. Memorial Hall would dampen anyone's enthusiasm. Why not have the Prom at some attractive ballroom? If the Gaydon Club can afford it, certainly the much larger Junior Class can afford it. It seems to me that an announcement by the 1930 Prom Committee of a good orchestra in a good ballroom would do much to revive the waning interest of the Juniors in their one big unified social endeavor. Sincerely yours,   Philip Donham '30