Boston University School of Management - Syllabus Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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QI - EVENTS OF YEAR H Bounding Billows H A certain passion for the sea has been one of the characteristics of Billy the boy author, known to theatergoers and critics alike, as George Bacon, twice author of an all-B. U. Production. I George has sailed the seas, and while in school has sailed by on C's. so for this 'year's annual dramatic splurge he chose Bounding Billows. lt is a tale of seas, yachts, pretty girls, and clever men. Next to the sea, and possibly ahead of it, George has a failing for pretty girls. The clever men he introduced merely as one of the tricks of the trade. We saw the show- two, three - oh, many times -here's a bit on how the stull' was staged. The curtain went up and every one saw C. C. Withers trying to be a millionaire -you sec it was his summer home. llc portrayed a New York stock broker throwing a mean week-end party. Playing about the stage was dainty Muriel Archung as his daughter Dorothy, who with his sister Lou does the heavy receiving as hostesses. Winslow plans a cruise on his 'yacht Bounding Billows and is influenced by Dorothy to invile all of her friends. Then did the C. S. S. girls and the C. B. A. boys shine. lt was no easy task to teach them their steps, but they done noblef' In order to keep the spectators in suspense, George 'read up on Shermlock Bones and as a result introduced two mysterious parts, Dick and Bones, into his plot. The pair join the Yachlfs crew as substitutes for two members who were supposed to have turned from the sea to the jug. Oren Armstrong, who has the appearance and the rest of what goes to make perfectly sane young men go into the game of dishing out their photos at .25 a throw, played the lead role of Dick. Oren not only looked like a hero, but he acted and loved like the best of the boys in popular novels. Oh, well, you saw the show, didn't youll -you know the fun, so we'll just indulge in a brief review of the production. Dorothy' was engaged to a slick-hai red guy named Percy Van Ralston. Francis Buney, as Percy, was very caddist and a member of New York's 11400. Dick and Bones piled into everything and of course overheard the plot to stall the boat and keep Winslow from the market. When twelve miles out, the yacht stopped - That was part of the plot - the radio was disabled and the captain sat back with a loud aha! ahal But our heroes had a little portable receiving set which, to make the show come out right, was used for sending the essential message. Vertex Steel was steadily dropping on the market-it was corset steel, which accounts for the steady drop. But pardon us, we wander. Dick finds out that Percy is trying to ruin Mr. Winslow by helping other magnates corner everything in the steel market, including hairpin steel. 1 The yacht finally got under way and started for New York, and Dick and Bones, instead of turning out to be the ever-present prohibition agents, l.urned out to be salesmen. Profiting from .lack Scammel's sales and arg11lI1cnlfHlfi0T1 courses about tricks and eats, 'these boys sold the bondsg and then Dick, oh, yes, all 'through the show Dick and .Dorothy had been passing Beanpot jokes to one another and it all ended with lips that met behind the footlights. Too bad lt wasn't lips that met behind the scenes. But - honest - it was some show! . 263

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SYLLABUS 1925 ' 'F . - Junior Week CConlinuedj Monday, we journeyed. to the Copley-Plaza to the Swiss Boom and the Pana- delphic Dance - Such a hop, such a doggone good hopl Everyone who regularly makes pinholes in his vest was there-many others wanted to be, but because of limited. tickets were constrained to listen in on the radio. Friday, the girls seemed. pretty nice, but on Monday, somebody must have uncorked all the Ad girls in the country. Owing to a fine faculty spirit, we had no quizzes to worry over, so the books continued to gather their daily dozen grains of dust. Somebody conceived the brilliant idea that we should dedicate the new song- book on T ucsday-we did! From an authentic source we have it that Leo Biseman changed violins twelve times, trying to find. out where the discords came from. We found out at the party that some of the fraternities have songs we would like 'to hear more frequently. On Wednesday, the boys all appeared with Sam Browne belts laboriously polished. At about 3:30, the girls began to flock to the Fenway - then the fun began. Oh, boy! Oh, manl Oh ,- girl! such a drill as that was. With such an audience looking on, we are sure any man could have carried a machine gun on his shoulder, or shot it from his hip. In the evening, the boys climbed into the remaining clean pair of flannels and piled over to the Gym for Activities Night. A strictly novel entertainment, an innovation this year, which because of the hit it made and the fine time everyone had, is sure to become a fixture of Junior Week. Thursday, the boys stalled off the fairer ones and sought the downy couches on which to grab oil' forty winks. It was rumored. that fraternities kept Open House, but we aren't sure because, as for ourselves, we slept. . Anyone would want to sleep so as to store up extra energy for the one big event Friday night, the PBOM. What a twelve cylinder success the prom turned out to bel Maybe Bert Lowe's team has played better- maybe some- where there has been gathered 'together a prettier bevy of girls -- and finer men - we say MAYBE. You see, we don't really believe in Santa Claus and so won't say more. Before the Promenade, the fairer sex received engraved invitations that were supposed to go with the tickets - but - l Afterwards, there were many other little engraved cards went out, yes - we darn near fell in love ourselves, but re- membered thc rented tux.-. Thus ended the week according to the reading on the calendar, but it will be lived over and over again in memory and when memory lacks vividness, there is the mem-book. 262

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ca - SYLLABUS 1925 'fi' j, T 1 .-L' - far 1 .- , ,Q Preview of Year History says some wise old bird, repeats itself. Mebbe so, but not here at B. U. At other colleges the same things happen year in and year out, with little variation. At our little Alma lVlater, however, l.hings vary more than the temperature in some or our heated rooms, which is saying a llock of mouthfuls. linumerating a few of the more outstanding and never-before incidents, as the case may be, witness the Fiftieth Anniversary celebration, the Endowment Drive, the opening of the new Varsity Gym, the New York. trip, the Junior Dance, B. U. Night at i'Caroline, the annual Devil's Den riot, the visit of l'ormer 'Vice-'President Marshall and the impressive Skull tappings, together with the biggest and best Junior Week and Show, ol' which more elsewhere. Commencing at the properly designated spot. however, the first thing on the score-card is registration, which we pass over without connnent, except for a few groans and a prayer that Lord llowelies, well known to Beanpot readers, will invent a registration machine. even if he has to steal Professor Stratton's patent on the one he talks so much about inventing. Sterling Greene ol' Watertown broke the college record for ofliee-holding, and was elected president of his Class for the third consecutive time. lVlore than l500 students visited Caroline at the Majestic Theatre, ,No- vember 8, and enjoyed the show tremendously. Next to the Gym opening, the New York t.rip was the event of t.he year. Friday, November 23, about 200 loyal B. U. rooters boarded the train at the South Station, and proceeded in orderly manner to Fall Biver. The good ship Priscilla got. under way shortly afterwards, and if we are to believe the story in thc News, the proceedings, of the ship at least, were anything but orderly. Between the 200 of us, we managed to do just about everything in little old New York, from Chinatown to Greenwich Village and from the lVletropolitan to Artists and Models. Sunday was spent. in sightseeing, and in recupcrating from the elfects of the day, and night. before. At 5 p.m., the boat started, with most of us on board. and we arrived in Boston just in time for 9:l5's Monday nu rning, which classes were attended physically if not ot.herwise by the trippers. Two of the most important events of the year featured the week of February 18. On Monday, the Skull, junior honorary society, held their annual tapping of juniors. Ten men from the Class of 1925 were selected during the impressive ceremonies, together with Dr. lidwin lVl. Chamberlin and Prof. Boy Davis ofthe college faculty. The following day, Tuesday, February l9, witnessed the opening of the new Varsity Gym on the third floor of the old Arena. The authorities spent some fllS30,000 in fixing the place up, and when the 2000 or more B. U. followers jammed their way in to the Gym on the opening night, they voted the money well expended. ln accordance with the precedent set during the last school year, the University authorities brought to B. U. to deliver a series of lecl.ures, a man whom everyone enjoyed and profited by hearing, Thomas B. lVlarshall, former Vice-President of the United States, who was with us during the week of March 10. More than 150 juniors foregathered at Whitney lflall, February 18, to trip the light fantastic fox-trot at the annual junior hop. 26-1