Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year's Jubilee was held on the weekend of May 4 and 5. The traditional candlelight supper was held in the Union and was followed by an informal dance at Eliot House. Saturday the Yardlings witnessed the Compton Cup Race and then attended a formal dance in the Union. Eliot Lawrence's band played and the Krokodiloes sang...
...tests will be more than successful if they produce anything like the enthusiasm shown by many readers who wrote in after our last News Quiz ran in October. Said a G.I. in Korea: "The generator failed, and we were left without electricity, so I worked out the quiz by candlelight." And a California housewife: "I love the quiz and take it each time with clammy hands and thumping heart exactly as if I were back in college and had to do well...
Fiesta-minded Mexicans start celebrating the Christmas season in mid-December with an old Spanish custom (candlelight processions symbolizing the search for shelter by Mary and Joseph). They conclude it on Jan. 6 with an old Italian custom (giving gifts to children for the Festival of the Three Kings) and an old French custom (cutting up a cake containing a figurine of the Christ Child). Between times, they observe an old Franco-Spanish custom (displaying crèches showing Christ in the manger), an old European custom (hanging stockings), an old English custom (sending cards), an old German custom (decrating...
Approximately 200 couples attended the big affair which was originally scheduled to be held in Memorial Hall. Freshmen and their girls attended a traditional candlelight supper in the Union before the dance...
Someone has dubbed Senior Prom weekend at Vassar "Southern Scandal." If you're planning to attend anyhow, you may expect to find a cocktail party (spontaneous) in the Alumnae House between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, followed by a Candlelight Dinner in Main Hall (spontaneous) at 7 p.m. The Prom will start...