The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-25
YALE PROM TIME CUT
WONT HALT GAYETY
Faculty Rules Are Protested
Against, but Plans Arc Made
on Large Scale.
THREE PLAYS TO BIZ GIVEN
Ban on Dawn Teas After the
Dance. but None Expected to
Go to Bed Hungry.

NEW HAVEN. Jan. 2i.--While Dean
Frederick =. Jones of Yale and Director
Russell n. Chittenden Of the Sheffield
Scientific School have ordered an abbre.
waited Yale promenade this year. the big
undergraduate event. which opens next
week. promises to make up in quality
what II must lack In quantity. according
to the members OF 1915 and 1916 s. under
whose auspices the big dance will take
place.
That liz the Yale boys are going to
crowd into two days. " the days and
nights are long enough. all the gayety
that formerly covered four days and
sometimes hung over into tn, fifth.
The Yale men who attended the
promenade last year are responsible so
u Is said for the action taken According
TO the charge made by the faculty some
Yale men continued the promenade on
"wednesday morning long after the hour
OF official breaking up OF the dance at
O'Clock. As lights had to he out at the
arInory. where the prom was held. before
breakfast time these Yale men and their
guests continued their dancing at the
Hotel Taft and at dormitories.
SO this year. for the first time since
any one can remember. there II to he no
prom on Sunday. At first the Yale deans
announced that guests would not be well
come until Monday OF prom week and
that all prom festivities before that would
be cut or. But announcement has been
made that guests may arrive i'm New
Haven on that date II they desire. but
that no festivities may he held.
But this year. while the Shelf chapter
houses may accommodate guests on Sun
DAY there are TO he no entertainments
and the Shelf dormltories will not be- open
Tor prom CHESTS until Monday morning.
begins with a Hockey Game.
The promenade programme this year
opens on Monday afternoon, February .,
at $50 O'CLOCK. when n hockey game is
to be played between Yale and Dart
mouth AT the new ice rink This is the
hrst time that an athletic event has been
on the prom programme.
On Monday afternoon from o'clock on
the usual junior and sophomore teas will
be given Mrs. Henry r. English will
give the junior tea nj her home on I'M.
house avenue and Mrs. r.. Hershey sheath
will give the sophomore tea at her home
on Whitney avenue. These teas are given
% that the guests OF the Yale men may
meet before the Junior and sophomore
germans. which are always danced Oh
Monday evening.
Former prom programmes always called
for the annual prom concert OF the Yale
Musical Club to be given on Monday
evening, but this year instead the Yale
Dramatic Association will give it's usual
Saturday evening performance.
The members of the Vale Dramatic As
oociatiou will give three one act plays
Instead of on" three act play ~ formerly.
The PLAYS to b. given are "Fri;zchen.'
1.-THE shades Of Night" and "iringoire.'
An extra event for Tuesday afternoon.
occordins 10 the new prom programme.
10 the concert of the musical clubs at
Woo!sey Hal at 9 80 O'Clock instead of
on Monday evening az formerly. II was
~ this prom concert of the musical clubs,
when u was held at the Hyperion Thea
tire. that the freshmen used 10 occupy the
top gallery. and break loose
The musical clubs this year are PLAN
ming TO give the best concert that has ever
been given at prom time. Al the con-
clusion of the concert the regular Shelf
teas will be held at all Of the Shelf chap
ter houses from until : o'clock.
The final affair OF the promenade fes-
tivities Will be the big dance In the Sec
ond Reg ment Arrnory on February 3. As
usual the big aruory will be decorated
with bunting In the Yale colors and boxes
will be arranged along three sides Of the
dance hall Yale shells and other ath-
letic trophies will be used TO decorate the
ceiling. together with bunting and other
decorations.
Tho dance will begin at 8 o'clock and
will be led by Joseph Walker Sd OF New
York city, floor manager of the JUNO,
promenade committee of 1914.
Members of the Committee.
The members Of the committee include
Harold 4. Pumpolly. 10. chairman, Os-
wego. y. Y: Joseph Walker Sd. rs. New
York city, floor manager. Thomas Bayne
Denegre, 10, New Orleans Edward j
6tackpole, Jr, rs. Harrisburg. Pa: w
Martindale Sheldon, rs. Brookline. Mass
Archibald MacIIeish, rs. Glencoe. III.
Henry G, Woodruff. Jr.. 10. Staten
Island stephen r. Davenport. 10. Staten
Island Myron X. Blackmer. 1855 Denver
George e. Blossom, 'I5S. Chicago
Michael Javin Carter. 'l5S, Memphis
John Shepard Pendleton, l5S. Minneapo-
lis.
When the musicians play Home Sweet
Home" about o'clock on Wednesda ,
morning the Yale Junior Promenade fes.
tivities must end, according to faculty
ruling and explicit instructions. Not much
has ever been said about the dawn teas
that formerly were n part Of the prom
programme and which were always more
or less under faculty ban.
But prom guests and their escorts were
always hungry after dancing all night. ever
* supper had been served at midnight
30 what more natural than that the Val,
hosts should invite their guests TO break.
fast In their rooms or at the hotels II
town. Several years ago the faculty put
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