Inter-House Dance Council Agrees to Spring Weekend

A spring weekend featuring separate closed dances in each of the Houses will be held from April 29 through May 1, if a resolution passed by the Inter-House Dance Committee is accepted by the eight House Committees. The majority of House Committees appeared to favor the plan last night.

"We want to keep the weekend as low pressure as possible, and feel that this can be done successfully if it is centered in the separate Houses," Carl A. Goldman '55, chairman of the Inter-House Dance Committee said last night.

"All we are asking the Houses to do is to hold a dance that Saturday evening, he said. "If the House Committees agree to our plan, we will obtain other entertainment for Friday and Sunday."

Saturday Sports Events

A large number of sports events are scheduled for Saturday afternoon. The main contest is the Compton Cup regatta, to be held on the Charles, with crews from Harvard, Princeton, M.I.T., and Wisconsin. A baseball game with Navy, lacrosse against Williams, and a tennis match with Dartmouth are also scheduled.

Goldman said that his group intends to make the weekend as inexpensive as possible. No admission will be charged to any athletic event except the baseball game. Goldman believes that the dances will cost loss than football weekend dances in some Houses.

Undergraduates seem to favor the weekend, according to a straw poll conducted by the Winthrop House Committee. 109 of 144 voters favored a spring weekend, 25 were "indifferent," and only nine opposed it. The Adams and Dudley House Committees have already voted to back the plan.

Crimson Key Withdraws

The Crimson Key Society sponsored an All-College Weekend for several years, but decided to discontinue it when they lost $400 last year.

Undergraduate protest against the All-College Weekend is believed to have caused the financial loss. Many students felt that the All-College Weekend, featuring a formal dance in the IAB, was too "rah-rah" for Harvard.

William D. Coakley '55, president of the Crimson Key Society, said he felt that the College wanted a weekend on a House rather than an all-college level.

At first, Eliot House was opposed to the idea, and Dunster House was non-committal. Since then, modifications in the original plan have made it acceptable.