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THE MILITARY BALL ... Many were the obstacles facing the members of the W.M.C. Officers' Club in their planning for the annual Military Ball. Due to the exigencies of war. some members of the class were graduating at the end of the first semester, which necessitated the moving up the date of the dance from sometime in the Spring to the month of November. It was only with the greatest difficulty that an orchestra was secured in a day when music for such affairs was hard to obtain With wartime restrictions on ma- terials used for dance decorations. there was no elaborate setting of wire and crepe paper. Instead of purchasing the usual flowers for his admiring lady, cadet officers bought wartime corsages made of defense stamps. With this dance affected to a great extent by the restrictions and changes impaired by the grim facts of war, the Military Ball of 1943 was the most mili- taristic of any ever sponsored before on the "HiJI", 114