Word: chaperon
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...president of the 'Cliffe Student Government, stated that if House hours were pushed up from the usual time of 7 o'clock, Radcliffe might formulate a set of rules for College Houses based on Articles VI of the Rules for the Halls of Residence, which ordinarily requires a chaperon to accompany a student to a man's residence. No chaperonage in the Houses is required under the present visiting hours...
...Yard dormitory rule requiring chaperons to keep an eye on potentially amorous Freshmen is a needless irritant. At best, the chaperon system acts as a front to comfort parents worried about the intoxicating effect of almost unlimited freedom on their sons. At worst, it simply lingers as an obsolete carry, over from the old arrangement that held the bumptious Freshman in his "proper" place. Surely any such prep-schoolish requirement--that two "disinterested observers" oversee the activities of one couple--should follow having and beanies into oblivion...
Possibly the University feels that Yard dwellers are too young to be put on their own in the great social game. The chaperon system may be just a fatherly device to protect inexperienced youths from the clutches of unscrupulous females. If that is the case, it seems strange indeed that House residents should be so completely cast adrift on the seas of passion, sustained only by sign-in registers and curfews...
...visit to Paris was the works. He showed up in the French capital ahead of time, quickly signed up the big shots for dinners and receptions, arranged a sightseeing schedule that omitted few historical monuments. But Father Benitez, who is both Evita's chaperon and confessor, could do nothing about the weather. The weather was cruel...
...addition to two front-row seats to "Juno and the Paycock" on opening night, May 6, HDC will provide the newly-acquainted couple with dinner at the China House, dancing at the Oval Room of the Copley, and a chauffer who is prepared to double as chaperon, if the need should arise...