Morse Believes Class Day Fete Inadvisable

Elaborate ceremonies at Class Day, scheduled for June 17, are extremely unwise in view of present conditions, according to William G. Morse '99, Purchasing Agent for the University.

For the past ten years, Morse has helped the Senior Class Committee with arrangements for Class Day. In this period, he has aided in reducing the costs by more than 50%, but this year he says that expenditures will have to be cut far more than ever before.

No More Confetti

"The most spectacular part of the Stadium exercises", he said, "must be omitted because it would be wrong when paper is a scarce article to throw away $450 worth of it in a confetti battle lasting only ten minutes."

Another drawback, according to Morse, is the financial situation. The admission fee that the spectators pay at the Stadium exercise, finances, to a large extent, the entire expense of the ceremonies. This year the attendance will be much smaller, and this will necessitate a great reduction in the expenditures.

Ceremonies Less Colorful

An additional damper on the Class Day festivities is the fact that the baseball game with Yale, usually played right after the Stadium exercises, has been moved several weeks forward.

The ceremonies will be much less colorful because "the reunion classes, which usually march into the Stadium with bands playing and in gay costumes, will probably not have costumes and may not even have bands. It is hard to raise money and it is a wrong time to waste materials and labor".

"It should be a matter for serious consideration by the Senior Class whether they should try to hold Stadium exercises at all," Morse continued, "and what kind of other exercises they would like to substitute, if any. I'm quite willing to cooperate with them if they want to plane something, even though I disapprove."

In any event, Morse believes, action should be taken soon, because the plans of the reunion classes, are dependent on the Class Day program, and it takes a long time to get materials with war priority restrictions in effect.