Word: booklets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gain free admission to events other than football games and contests where seats are reserved, students must present their booklet at the gate, where the coupon corresponding to the number of the event will be detached. There are enough coupons in the booklet to cover all athletic events throughout the year...
...booklet carries the notice, "Not replaced if lost, mislaid or stolen." There will ordinarily be no exceptions to this rule, says Lunden, so a lost booklet, will mean the loss of the student's privilege of free admission to all home athletic contests during the year. Lunden admits, however, that an exceptional case might arise for which the rule would be reconsidered...
...untried, young sub-freshman at Vassar is being treated this year (and, we suspect, every year) to a little booklet which tells in a chatty down-Poughkeepsie sort of way what the little tyke has in store for her. She is warned, before the book is four pages done, that Vassar offers no course in writing poetry: the book opens with the verselet, "Letters, pamphlets, luncheons, teas--/Until the Freshman thinks she sees/Just what Vassar has in store. /But the following year will tell the score...
Despite all this, the Vassar girl will study hard--(according to the booklet), and she thus needs something to "clear the cobwebs out of her brains." The solution, of course, is WAA (Weekend Activities Association). This tasteless group (it plans freshman dances with Yale, Princeton, and Williams) adds "the fun of new faces and new places" to the overworked child's "week-end curriculum...
...does. According to the booklet, the most important problem in the young thing's life will be "How to Set Up Housekeeping at Vassar," and is thus the subject of Chapter 1. Warning the freshman that when she first arrives "the room looks BARE," it counsels that she "use one doorknob for support and think ahead to the close of the first few weeks when your room will assume its own personality, look homelike, and be the place in which you will live...