249 YARDLINGS FAVOR DANCE RESOLUTION

A Freshman petition with 249 signatures asking Jubilee reforms, together with a Jubilee Committee statement advocating its points in principle but denying its practical possibilities were the spontaneous action taken yesterday by the Yardlings on the current Jubilee discussion.

The three plank petition, summing up in substance yesterday's CRIMSON editorial on the subject, request that "the Student Council raise the allowance for an orchestra for the Jubilee to $1500; that tickets to the Jubilee be reduced at least a dollar in price; and that definite action be taken in an attempt to make arrangements for girls to spend the Jubilee weekend in Straus and Lionel."

At a special meeting called to discuss the editorial and petition, the 1944 Jubilee Committee formed a reply admitting the necessity of popularizing the annual affair and the value of boarding the Freshmen's guests in a college dormitory.

Citing a recent decision by a meeting of House Masters to prohibit paying more than $800 for a dance band at any Harvard dance and the Student Council's steadfast refusal to increase the orchestra budget, Chairman Andrew Welch regarded an increase unlikely. "If we had the guarantee of as many Freshmen as necessary to meet the additional expense, it might be possible," Welch suggested. The Committee has already approached the Council and Dean Leighton with the problem, but with no success.

Answering the suggestion of lowering the price of tickets, Welch stated that a dollar reduction would not guarantee enough Freshmen above the 373 that attended last year to balance the budget, in view of the fact that a student's total expenses are chiefly and overwhelmingly affected by boarding and entertaining a girl over the weekend.

This involves the third point of boarding girls in the Yard. The Committee reports that several months ago it approached Dean Leighton on the subject but was told any such suggestion was impossible as inconvenient to the students so near to finals and, the statement said, "contrary to the policies and tradition of the College.