Word: chaperone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reception of women guests in students' rooms is apparently being looked upon with increasing liberality by the authorities of Eastern universities. The CRIMSON's survey of the regulations in force at Harvard's contemporaries reveals a tendency to ease up on the usual old requirement that a chaperon be present whenever young ladies enter the dormitories. At Yale, for example, two students need no chaperon to obtain permission to receive a girl in a dormitory room in the afternoon. Such parietal rules contrast strikingly with those at Harvard where a student may not so much as show his rooms...
...occasion like today's football game illustrates the desirability of modifying the present code so that two or three students might informally entertain. In their rooms for luncheon or tea without a chaperon. That there are valid objections to such change is doubtful, since similiar entertainment has been successful in such representative American universities as Yale and Princeton, and in conservative Oxford and Cambridge...
Last week The Dartmouth (undergraduate daily) aroused by past indignities to chaperons, plumping for abolition of chaperons, editorialized: "Many of us are unwilling to ask our mothers, or anyone we respect, to bear the brunt of universal disregard, and even the shade of contempt which cannot but arise from the office of chaperon as it exists at present...