St Josephs University - Greatonian Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE GREATONIAN I934 The .lunior Prom. LJNIORS have two interests---their Philosophy and their Junior Prom, and they try to serve both, Indeed, it must be admitted that both have their good points. The Prom refreshes and gladclens the mind while Philosophy , . . I don't suppose, however, that it ever occurred to anyone to combine the two, I mean, to philosophize on Junior Promness would be as rare as finding a student in the library reading the Summa Theologicaf' l will not make any pretensions to undertake this some- John lvl- I-OWIOV ' what appalling work ll do not refer to the Summal. I leave that to broader minds and brains, Anyhow, it seems to me that such a dissertation would be excruciatingly and exquisitely boring, Analysis of a pleasure always kills that pleasure, in this case, the memory of it, And let me be the last to append a moral to the Junior Prom of l933. Chairman But then I cannot imagine anyone's being especially enraptured at the mere recounting of the facts that the music was George I-IalI's, the singing Loretta Lee's and the place the Bellevue-Stratford. lThere, I got that in.l So I suppose I shall have to do a little philosophizing, This, of course, is the cue to stop reading this article and immediately apply yourself to the very first thing that comes to mind. lYet, the second half of this article is better than the first, So read on, will you?l The reasons for a Junior Prom are obvious and many. So I shall have to be obvious if not many, For one thing, a dance such as the Junior Prom lets off steam, After all, the school Fathers do not all have beards nor do they expect us perpetually to be engaged in research and dilemma. For one night, one can imagine that there is nothing else in the world but gaiety and the smoke rings of dreams, Of course that isn't true, but it is one of the charms of a Prom about which one never seriously thinks. The greatest blessing of the Prom is that one never thinks there at all, And that, in itself, is a rare experience for us men of St. Joseph'sI For one night, one travels in a land of sweet ecstasy. In fact, the nar- rator becomes rhapsodic when he tries to tell it. Witness. Then, there's the girl. She must be taken out sometime, so why not have an extraordinary occasion to which to escort her. That's another reason for a Prom. I mean a girl must get rather tired of going to movies and basketball games and seeing you jump up and shout, l3oyI Did you see Koblinski make that goall Boyl I Boy, such things do not satisfy the feminine urge for Romance lspelled with a large capital Rl, I mention this aspect of it because this would be most likely to be passed over by us thoughtless males. I-lowever, do not think that when you took Clotilda to waltz you were giving her a break, The Prom was designed for her more than for you who do not need beauty lmuch less a husbandl. You probably stepped all over her silver ballroom sandals anyway, you . . . you . . . yokel, you. Ninety

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1934 THE GREATONIAN Junior Week S PRING is not determined by vernal eauinoxes, vernier calipers or vernerable physicists. Spring is in swing when Bryn Mawr maidens gambol Morris dances, when the Junior President gives a loving pat to the sod around the new-planted ivy and tenderly sprinkles it so that the memory of the Junior Class may be kept green and this College ol ours may acquire old-world dignity, in a hundred years The Week begins tittingly with Mass. During the Week various sized young men go Olympic or Lupercalian and hurl discuses and jump hurdles and run miles and miles and smash handballs and toss javelins and where does it get them, you say, Well, it's a lot of fun and it's a tradition, And as every school boy knows, tradition ts always right. After these events are over, all first places having gone to Rice Krispie-eaters tAdvt l, prizes are awarded at the Dance. These consist' of gold! and silver-plated medals with a Della Robbian bas-relief of contorting athletes and the winners of them say Oh Boyl and the cxtroverts put them on watch chains and the introverts in drawers. Our entry for the Intercollegiate Play Contest is a one-acter Submerged and it is an undeviabie tradition that St. Joseph's win. This is really the best part of Junior Week- -if fun and thrills count' for anything. There are usually about six plays, providing Drama and Romance and Escape. Wm does not tighten his muscles when he hears the cool hero shout to the crool villoini You bought the Widow lvlcTaggart's property for a song, Squire Trevelyan, because you knew the railroad was angltn' for o slice o' itl What is regarded as the climax to the Week is the Blazer Ball, this year at the Philadelphifi Cricket Club There the boys, dressed in their blazers, are spotless Which is something, you will admit, There each lad hears the words l could dance with you forever and believes them, There between dances comes the scent of heather and cool grass and each Junior lad looks at the moon and says You remind me ol my mother. O Spring' O Youthl O Spring' O Yeahl And the Week passes and the Juniors pass to Exams and vacation and Seniorhood and they bicker about commerce and about free will and worry about marks and future jobs, if any, and they graduate and the cold world yawns and they forget the courts and the playing fields and the dances and-meanwhile the '35 lvy grows and sturdies, Eighty--nine

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1934 THE GREATONIAN But one thing thot' connot be forgotten whenever people gother to speok ot o Junior Prom is the wit' thot tloots to the surtoce ot such o noble soeioli Advisedly I soy Hconnot be torgott'en becouse the humor he-ord there is peculiorly ditterent thon ony heord elsewhere on this plonet. The conversotions between beou ond belle, the rejoinder thrown from student' to student, trom olumnus to olumnus, from olumnus to olumno, ore so indigenous to thot one occosion thot one is immediotoly struclf. by it. Wtience these brilliont remorlqs? this Hreportie goie ? these just too- killing puns? I don't knowg I just shut my eyes ond lough ond otter these things up together with the time I didn't use le mot indecent when the Iody sot on me in the subwoy. And, omong oll the unimportont' wittieisms, I heor on oceosionol low lough or on eguolly solt sigh. Then is Nirvono, Then is the Junior Prom port ot lite. Joseph C, Young Alfred XX Mondes Michael J. Rock Joseph A Cooley John M Shiscolz Frederifk B. Kouflntonn Jomes VV. Cornoy John S. Holger Louis C Riegerl Marlin G Itilev Clement I. IVlCCoIlo Robert J, IVIFKLM lOl-IN lvl, LAWL COMMITTEE Choirmon Vive Choirmon SYIVI 'Sli ll J l,OWl'IlY OR Fronlal MFDQVIII C, Iloiley Srhonlelo .Ionirrs T, Sullivon Robert Ii. Crowley Nlorlin J Koebert J. I-Iorrv lQnetsChI.n I-Ienry I3 Jones Poul L. Clcoson lrinrn L? Poiniuizzi John J lvlfhodclen John F Corson Jontes ll MCKCO Ninety -one