Over 100 undergraduates, chosen at random from the College phone book, gathered at Whitman Half last night for a "Homecoming Dance, gives an honor of John Snell '53 (pictured left), Suell's name was arbitrarily picked from the phone directory.
Mary Ellen Reffert '54 and Ants Burgett '54 (pictured left) "thought up the party as a means "of breaking the monotony of reading period." The scheme won immediate approval from most Whitman girls, and the Head Resident finally acceded.
Late last week the dauce committee selected the names of 100 Harvard phone subscribers to be Whitman's guests for the affair. Most all of the 100 chosen students, and some of their uninvited friends, accepted the Whitman offer to leave the books.
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