Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-16
THE COMING FESTIVITIES.

Indications That the Prom. Week
VIII be Quieter Than Usual This
Year Sale of Glee Club Concert |
Seats - Changes Made at the New |
Haven House - other Notes of Col |
lege Interest.
The glee club concert seats and boxes
were auctioned off yesterday afternoon
and the receipts were something like $3.50
less than last year. This is another indi-
cation that Prom. week will be somewhat
quiet this year, and is due largely, without
doubt, to the complaint which has recent
ly been so widely prevalent, namely: The
tight money market. Another incident
shows the same thing, and that is the
combination of the senior and sophomore
classes in giving german the night after
the promenade. The general apathy on
the campus is marked more than has been
| noticed in many year. In fact, the town
| people are vastly more enthusiastic. Per-
| haps the students have been obliged to
| accommodate their needs this year to
| much smaller checks than the usual al
| lowance which has in years past been alb
| solutely necessary to do the Prom. week
properly.
A few of the guests are already in town,
| most of them scattered about among
| friends, having como on early so as to
have few days for rest and looking
about. But to day all incoming trains
will bring their loads, and by tomorrow
| then accommodations at the New Haven
house will be difficult to obtain.
| What gallery full of smiling and pretty
faces there will be in Battell chapel next
Sunday morning! And imagine. the severe
| strain put on the seniors necks while try
| ing to turn around and yet look dignifed.
| ''Meet you at the New Haven house"
That is the current expression about the
campus, and particularly well Known this
time of the year. It is truly the place
where everyone is likely to be, SO to find
your man there is the place to go. Attrac-
tive as it has been in years past, certain
more so. A new additional dining room,
which Mr.. Moseley began building on some
months ago, was opened yesterday noon
| for the first time and won admiration from
all those who saw it. The new annex din
ing hall runs off at right angles from the
| upper end of the old one and is 35x4O feet
in size. It will accommodate fifty people.
The design and finish are most artistic, the
woodwork all being quartered oak and a
|
tions were done by the Tiffany Glass com.
pany of NewY FORK land a beautiful blending
Of delicate colors is the result. One charm
of the room is that the doors when
closed is practically private room and
one of the best places in the world for 6
dinner or small dancing party. AS such
in Prom. week it will have extensive use
Mr.. Moseley proposes to make an innova
ton this year for the regular reception
which is always held at the New Haver
house after the Glee club concert Monday
night. Heretofore these affairs have beer
held in the parlors upstairs, but now Mr.
Moseley proposes clearing away all thu
tables, ct cetera, from the dining room ant
holding the reception there.
This will add not a little to the comfor
, and enjoyment of an event which is no
among the least of the weeks attractions
for it is here that many of those going t.
the Prom. the next night become acquaint
ed and every one feels that he or she il
having delightfully."- good time.
Whether the week is or is not destined
to be what is termed to be a quiet one, i
will have many alluring attractions ant
about which many pleasing Renaissance
will be clustered.