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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Activities are stalled today at Bowling Green University in Bowling Green, Ohio. Students are fighting a rule against beer on the campus...
Life on the student boats was unique. It was a bit like a college campus set afloat: the ships' bulletin boards were plastered with notices beginning "Meeting of World Federalists . . .", "All Ohioans interested in working for the defeat of Senator Taft . . .", and, coming home, "Ride to Chicago wanted--Share Expenses...
...three "dressy" dresses and at least one evening gown. For the sake of her prestige, she must never let a week go by without at least one date (freshmen get only 15 "1 o'clocks and overnights" the first semester). Those without weekend dates often prefer to leave campus, for "the awfulness of not having a date when everyone else does," says Dean Lucy Wilson, "hangs over them constantly...
Three Times & In. Usually the date is from M.I.T. or Harvard ("practically at our doorstep"). If he doesn't take her off some place for some dancing and probably a couple of drinks, she can keep him on her campus, sit with him on a bench by the lake, or even take him to class. If she takes her "special" to Tupelo Point three times and he still hasn't proposed, she can, according to tradition, throw him into Lake Waban...
...normal, Wellesley is as busy as an A. & P. "Don't panic," the girls tell each other as pre-exam work piles up. But some girls do panic, and a few secretly resort to "bennies" (benzedrine). Otherwise, they worry about their figures, and then at the Well, the campus soda fountain, they gorge themselves on Wellesley Specials (a brownie smothered in ice cream and hot fudge sauce). They play bebop records by the hour, but know more about Bach than any Wellesley generation before them. They are coldly practical about some things, but will gladly dress themselves...