FAMOUS HALE HOUSE BALL WILL NOT BE GIVEN AGAIN

The Hale House Ball has passed into history. It was learned yesterday that the famous dance, which for the past ten years has preceded either the Harvard-Princeton game or the Harvard-Yale game, depending upon which contest was in Cambridge, will be held no more.

The Hale House Ball has been given annually by the Hale House Settlement as a means of raising funds for the continuance of their settlement work. It had come to be regarded as a part and parcel of the final game in the Stadium each year.

The directors of the Hale House decided to abolish the dance because of the difficulty there has been in limiting its size. The overcrowding of the ball has each year caused a great deal of damage and expense and it is thought that a more satisfactory method can be devised of raising the necessary funds each year.