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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of the Committee on Houses have agreed to liberalize the coat and tie regulation in College dining halls, but the Harvard Undergraduate Council, which proposed the change, is still not satisfied...
...agreement would eliminate the coat and tie rule for all meals except dinner. The old rule will be replaced by a "well-defined expectation" according to Dean Glimp, spokesman for the Committee...
Glimp defined that "expectation," as "a coat and tie--or equivalent dress--for dinner and meals where ladies are apt to be present, and appropriate dress at all other times...
Since the beginning of classes, the coat and tie rule has not been rigidly enforced in any of the Houses, though the Freshman Union has been customarily strict. Several of the upperclass Houses, notably Winthrop and Lowell, have been quietly experimenting with no dress requirements, creating confusion among students over the rule's status...
Last year, Yale University dropped all coat and tie requirements in the undergraduate colleges after students petitioned to end the rule, which college masters had found impossible to enforce...