Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hectic weeks they persecute the freshman into avoiding forbidden gates, scrupulously wearing their beanies to bed, and serenading Pembroke at two in the morning. The climax of this hazing comes in a "greased-pole fight," when freshmen battle sophomores for a little white flag perched on a tall greasy pole. The sophomores have lost the trophy only twice in the V. C.'s history. But regardless of outcome, the freshmen have legally earned the right to toss off their beanies...
Each student will eventually be provided with a unit of furniture--desk, bureau, bed, desk chair, bookcase, and Harvard chair...
Rising on Saturday, Beau Brummel dumps the pile of dirty laundry off the foot of his bed, slips into his white bucks and clomps into the bathroom for his first bath since the Saturday before...
...wrinkled spotted clothes hanging in massive disarray in the closet, he picks a hanger on which is draped the prized gray flannel. Pawing through a heap of jumbled dusty left shoes, he picks out a pair of glistening cordovans. Finally, on his hands and knees, he crawls under the bed and disentangles a red and gray striped rep from around the bedstead...
...only a temporary illusion, a disguise put on for two days, for the sake of his weekend date. For Sunday night the oxford shirt goes into the laundry, the gray flannels back into the closet, the cordovans are scattered on the floor and the rep tie under the bed. And on Monday the fastidious youth stumbles out of bed into the same old pair of chines and the same dirty blue shirt which he sheds not until the weekend, arrives again...