The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-24
SOCIAL NOTES

College girls will continue to dance
the tango-Wellesiey seniors boldly
defied such renowned critics of the
dance. as Mayor Fitzgerald and Cotil-
lion Leader Samuel Hooper-Hooper IN
decreeing that such steps should not
go" in at their coming senior prom.
at the college gymnasium Feb. 6. They
have announced that the tango, the
turkey trot, the bunny hug, and all the
rest will be o. X. at the prom. Only
they must be danced gracefully in good
taste and with dignity. -
The castle walk" and various other
changes which may be rung in. The
"one-step" will also be danced by the
seniors and their friends without re-
serve or fear of the stern eye of the
censoring faculty. The seal of approval
of intellectual young womanhood has
thus been set on dances which are
barred from the municipal halls and
from the impeccable circle of the Back
Plaza, The daring dancing programme
is to be the biggest sensation of the
biggest social event in the college ca
reer of Wellesley. 1914. The bear
penetrated aver to the depths of wild
est Alaska, according to Capt. F. E.
K~leinschmidt, the Arctic explorer, who
is in the United States to lecture be-
fore the National Geographic society.
These dances. he says, are fully as
popular with the Eskimos as they are
in the United Etates, but the turkey
trot" and "hesitation waltz are not
included in the category of Eskimo
AS Prof. G. Hepburn Wilson. Of New
York city, teacher Of teachers of the
modern dances, remarked en- route be-
tween Part I of Special Sessions n
the ten-thirty, second and fourth Mon
days tango class last week. "The
graceful body makes for the grace
fui mind. 1t is through physical
grace in dancing that we develop men
the enemies Of the new dances, being
themselves deficient In that mental
grace without which 1t is impossible
to appreciate and. comprehend the full
beauty and gracefulness of modern
dancing, are demanding that I TAXI
out a common dance-hall license, when
I am not conducting a dance hall, but
an educational institution"
1t is very annoying. If he leaves his
alma mater for two minutes. Prexy
Wilson says some Instructor Of stud
ent Is sure to desert the n
open a rival establishment. You can
see what this means when 1t Is said
that the total registration in his six
studios is 5000 students, and that Prexy
Wilson has a faculty of eighty-hve
professors and $50 assistant professors
under him.
land If the courts hold that I must
take out a license" said Prexy Wilson,
why, all the others who have branch
ed out from my school Will nave. TO
take out licenses, co.. They'll be the
ones to suffer most Of all, because
what's fifty dollars to me-! I can Of
ford to pay, but if I must pay, then
why should not schools of Languages,
and Sunday schools, and every place
where instruction is given, have to pay
for licenses also""
In short, Prexy Wilson contends that
this effort to force him to get a license
is all part of the widespread m~isunder-
Standing of the modern dances, based
upon the fundamental defect of an un-
graceful mind. People, for instance,
talk glibly of the tango but Prexy
This country less thar two months. To
demonstrate that he had made Its &C
quaintance-and ignoring the fact that
the corridor of the Criminal Courts
building In New York was ogged