Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-08

hockey size. gee feet by SC feet, and will have room to accommodate 3,boU people seated and g.g99 more standing The hall will be three times as large as any now in New Haven. it is stated by the management, and after the skating season Is over 1t is proposed to put sectional board floors on the rink and open the place for conyen- tiens and other gatherings.
 John Philip sousa, bandmaster, thinks that New Haven can be made musical center for southern New England. corresponding with Boston in the northern part. The whole world loves a tune, said the famous musician, who conducted his band at two com certs in Weelsey hall, and Yale has at the head of her music department a man who is a leader in musical compe- sitien not only in America put III the whole world. Centering 1t around Fro lessor Parker. the New Haven sym, phony orchestra and the cultured ana appreciative university influence, New Haven could undoubtedly most sue cessfuHy be made such clty. MI Sousa considers that pure unadulterat- ed music is symphonic music. HIS ambition is to entice people with the sweep of the march and then to have them want to hear Wagner second time.
 YaIe's famous junior prom week IS ooina to be cut down in decided | fashion this year, If the mandates or the faculty seat this week to the chair men of the various committees are not influenced by the storm of indignant protest that has broken out tn potn academic and Shelf. more strongly In the latter department. The new se- mester plan gives the administrative authorities their opportunity at re- vision downward, for the prom comes next February in the interval between the two half years. There will De recess of four or five days at that tlLne me and the men were making plans to i'll every hour of that time full of activity for their fair prom guests, put thls | is what Dean Jones had to say aoout it:
 "Promenade festivities shall not be- gin before Monday of promenade week. ! There shall be no dancing, no tea par ties and no entertainments on Satur- day. Saturday night or Sunday preccd- ing the promenade.
 The sophomore and junior germans are to be given on Monday night arter the dramatic clubs performance. ana the dancing shall stop at o'clock, after which there shall be no dawn teas" breakfasts or dancing in private rooms, clubhouses or elsewhere
 The promenade on Tuesday night follows the glee club concert. It is
 
 and there are to be no breakfasts or other form of prolongation of the oc- casion.
 In contrast with the freedom from restrictions that has been permitted in former years, this seems to some ar dent undergraduates like Puritanical simplicity. They deplore the fact that under faculty dictatorship the ale prom a social event recognized throughout the country as second only to the inaugural ball, is to die out and become a thing of the past They re- gret that under the new system it be- comes ridiculous to ask a young lady to come hundreds of miles to func- tion which she will find does not much more than equal the dances at home either in duration or quality, and then those famous teas in the cool. gray light of the daWn-these are going, too and in their place the faculty, hgura- lively. tucks the young ladies into bed. In brief, the prom is to be shorn of all it's distinguishing glories and there will be nc virtue left in it. Over in Shelf there is one grievance: the girl guests will not be permitted to occupy the fraternity houses-while the men move out temporarily-ex except from o'clock Monday morning until o'clock Wednesday night. That's a straw that makes the camel give one last groan.
 And yet on the other side, there are even among the undergraduates those who will support Dean Jones and Di- rector Chittenden in their stand for a simpler prom; some who cling to the notion of good old fashioned afternoon teas and discountenanCe dancing in the Talt ballroom until nearly noon the day after