FAREWELL BLUES

Foreshadowed by the cool reception given the Junior Prom last year comes the decision of the Class of 1931 to abandon what would appear to be an out worn tradition left over from the days of a smaller Harvard.

Interest in the Junior Prommenade has been marked during the last four or five years by a steady rate of decline. To bring to a merciful and speedy end that which is slowly dying of itself is often an act of kindness, and there is no exaggeration of the metaphor to point out here that no observance of a tradition is preferable to one which is the ghost of its former self.

Should news of the passing of the Prom still the revival instinct in members of the Junior Class one can yet conceive of its re-birth. But unless there is a sudden hue and cry calling the Promback to life, time probably would be better spent speculating as to the future of college dances under the House Plan social scheme, than in pondering the fate of an occasion that has had its day of glory.