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Rule 39 of "Regulations for Students in Harvard College," chief cause of this simmering discontent, states: "For University buildings other than Houses, permission (for the reception of women) must be obtained from the Proctor or the Dean's Office and will be granted only when chaperons are to be present". This makes necessary the presence of two male chaperons for a student and his female guest, as well as a fifth person acting as chaperon if two couples are in a room--all this or the wrath of the Proctor and the University...
...bearded, 32-year-old Prince had been introduced to a comely 22-year-old Moslem-American stenographer, Mary Mohammed. Mary Mohammed said that she met the Prince at a banquet, added that he took her home and stayed until 5 a.m. Later she came to New York, with a chaperon...
Four professors and their wives will be on hand to chaperon the informal dance. These will include Neil H. Borden, professor of Advertising, Melvin T. Copeland, professor of Marketing and director of research in the Graduate School of Business Administration, Edmund P. Learned, professor of Marketing, and Malcolm P. McNair, professor of Marketing and Syndic of the Harvard University Press...
...problems like these bothered factory managers a year ago. But now, perhaps, a very shapely sweater girl wanders in to take her place in the swing shift. Low whistles follow her as she ambles down the aisle between machines. But a few minutes later a grey-haired factory chaperon catches her in the ladies' room. The chaperon is tactful (workers are hard to get). She admires the sweater girl's figure but says it would be a shame if because of her some man lost a hand under a punch press. Next night the girl comes back...
Yank will have an official chaperon in Lieut. Colonel Egbert White, former vice president of the big ad agency of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, ex-staffman of Stars & Stripes...