Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-15

Corps? 1t is foolish to ask. Lenox Lob
went to work to get the date Of the pla,
dance. according to the principals re
port, which was read to the board yes
terday. and is as follows:
Il beg to inform you that l have found
| it necessary to suspend LenoX Lohr fol
| pointed opposition to authority.
| Mr.. Lohr is at the head of a fraternity
in this school which planned to have a
| dance on the evening Of May 5. This same
| school play. When Mr.. Lohr found that
there was this conflict of dates he sought
to have the school play postponed to a
later date because two or three of the
one of them by Mr.. LOhr. Mr.. Lohr ad-
mits the following conversation with a
student, the financial manager Of the
play:
We want you to use Your influence to
have the date OF the play changed be-
cause of the frat dance on one of the
nights. l have three ways OF getting the
date changed: First. by argument: sec
ond. by persuasion, and third by force:
II the date is not changed the cast will
be broken up
Financial manager: We can get others
to take their places
Mr.. Lohr: But they won't resign until
the week before the play and then it will
have to be postponed for at least three
weeks. I have control of at least one
half the cast or at least two of the men,
bers'
II beg to recommend also that Mr..
Lohr. who is lieutenant colonel Of the
cadet regiment, be deprived Of his COM
mission for the rest of the year.
Members Call It Big Boy Bluff Talk
Several members of the board were in
clined to laugh at the form Of Lenox
Lohrs gallantry toward his dance part
ner and characterized the dialogue be-
tween him and the other student as "big
boy blun talk AS this is the first time
the board has been faced with such a
mcmentous question: it asked that
q further investigation be male, and a
committee will dig into the matter.
Supt. Stuart told a Star reporter that
his own opinion is that the Lohr cpl
sode is but an outcropping Of student
idea that the fraternity is all powerful:
we have said all along that the fra
exist. Here is a direct effort to stop a
play which is being conducted under the
auspices of the faculty"
Efforts to locate Lenox Lohr or some
member Of his family last night and to-
day were unsuccessful.
The long-expected embargo against the
fluffy-ruffle graduation gown was read
to the board. yesterday. and Is even more
sweeping in its recommendation that avs
expected when the. movement started.
It is now proposed to start the simple
dressing idea at the sixth rgade, so that
girls viii be imbued with the idea of a
simple slip-on dress when they slip of
the high school graduation platform with
their diplomas in their hands.
In presenting the matter to the board,
Supt.- Stuart said that the time would
never come when the schools could think
Of enforcing a uniform graduation Dress
but he favored the inexpensive graduation
from start to finish.
Embargo on FLUFFY RuMes.
The veto has been put on the following
features Of feminine dress:
Low necks; elaborate headdress. in
Guiding false puffs, elaborate and expen-
sive trimmings and expensive silk gowns
for class night.
Class night restrictions IL one Of the
new features of the fashion plate en-