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...aura of phoniness, superficiality, and a unnatural intensity. "I doubt that there is such a thing as a relaxed blind date," a girl observed. The unpopularity of blind dates and the general contempt for mixtures make many girls who are socially inclined feel that having a steady boyfriend is almost imperative at Mount Holyoke. One girl took a rather cynical view of the function of boys in Mount Holyoke's world: "Boys are primarily a means for getting out of Holyoke for a weekend...

Author: By R. ANDREW Beyer, | Title: Mount Holyoke College: Isolation and Maternalism | 3/13/1963 | See Source »

Limes very seldom have groups of close friends, and never cliques. Instead they travel mostly alone, or with a serious boyfriend. And their travelling often takes the form of gliding. Perhaps a little too thin, some cultivate a mysterious, ethereal, or merely composed look. They are most conscious of their sex and often the most beautiful of the girls. They decorate their rooms with taste, and more concern for art and individuality than do their fellow students. And a search for self-expression, for eternal, almost mythic verities, is implied in the adjectives they use to compliment another girl: "beautiful...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: The Three Flavors of Radcliffe | 3/12/1963 | See Source »

Princeton will be here February 33. Don't miss Bradley. And you might try seeing the Crimson in action even if you don't have a roommate or boyfriend on the team. They have all sorts of great things now: a new scoreboard, a new P.A. system, and a new basketball team

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/28/1963 | See Source »

...dividing the area into alcoves of different sizes, possibly on different levels. Catherine Williston of North House, said, "The area may help us find a more civilized way of dining. In one alcove, a French club could meet; in another, one might have a tete a tete with her boyfriend." Such divisions may help Radcliffe achieve its long-sought goal of intelligent dinner conversation; tete a tetes seem unlikely...

Author: By Laetia Dow, | Title: Abstraction of The House System Radcliffe | 11/24/1962 | See Source »

...soda in a Frankfurt bar, an Army captain brooded: "This isn't Korea or Viet Nam, and it takes more than an effort of will to remain pure here for two years. And I wonder the same about my wife back home. You worry about home, her old boyfriend, the kids." Said an Air Force chaplain in England: "Morale is at rock bottom. We had an incident of a rendezvous in London between an officer and another man's wife. I thought somebody was going to get shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Families They Left Behind | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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