Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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HPHK question continually on the lip of the older people was, Is the younger generation in peril? The flapper, however, went noncha- lantly on her way drinking out ol her date ' s hip pocket flask, petting in the parked sedan, and dancing cheek to cheek. Thus conservative fami- lies sent their children to conservative Duke University to protect them from these evils. Bans on dancing, playing cards, and hazing issued hy the University officials had as little effect on the students as the eighteenth amend- ment for prohibition had on the country as a whole. Because of this restriction on dancing, social hop.-- were held in little-frequented places and soon achieved a popularity that approved functions had never enjoyed. Flappers and dudes attended classes to the sounds of a giant hell — known today as Marse Jack, and rung after football victories — which tolled off the periods. The radio was a novel form of entertainment, and coeds listened to the voice of Rudy Vallee crooning I ' m Just a Vaga- bond Lover. Student Government approval of the Savoy and Paris Theaters enabled Dukestcrs to see the first talkie — Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer. Every day the dean received reque»t for extra dates, out-of-town leave, and permis- sion to eat in the hotel. Although activities may have changed since then, human nature was the same. Students were forever seeking new things to do, and new ways to do the old things. With- out a doubt, they were the children of their own times — the unique Twenties. To raise the dignity of the University was the purpose of this athletic and leadership honorary. which also condemned smoking as undignified. The May Day festival with the crowning of the queen and the presenta- tion of a pantomime was one of the highlights of college life in 1926.

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