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...candidate, but it seems likely that they will support Nixon, even though they have been rather dovish on the war. Knight disclosed his personal feelings in a recent column: "Somehow we preferred the old Hubert - dedicated, faithful and true-to the newly contrived candidate who now wears a coat of many colors...
...school upheaval started when blacks at Dorchester's English High School demanded permission to form an all black Afro-American Club and to wear African dashikis instead of the customary coats and ties. English's headmaster granted the dress request, but the School Department refused to allow the blacks to form their own club. The blacks walked out, and were joined by white students protesting the coat and tie rule...
...more control over their school lives. The crisis was in large part a spontaneous cry for student power, and it was to some degree successful. Students won the power to make their own dress codes, and in at least one case--Boston Latin--they actually voted to retain the coat and tie rule...
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...