UNROMANTIC JUNIORS.

The annual bashfulness of Juniors in regard to their dance is again in evidence; and this time the diffidence seems unusually acute. Only fifty men have applied for tickets as against over two hundred last year. It invariably requires a great deal of explanation and argument to convince Juniors that the Union is the only possible place in which to hold the dance; and even then the importance of the "prom,"--the first of two all-class social events in the four college years,--does not always impress them.

If Junior "proms" at Harvard lasted an entire week and entailed a complete suspension of studies for that period, as they do at some colleges, men would not have to be "urged" to attend. The consequent revolution in the usual course of life, the abnormal excitement, would carry men off their feet, and they would flock to the dance. But the University system is saner,--also less expensive. And the term "Junior prom" still has a wondrous thrilling appeal to the other sex.