Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football stars automatically long to go to Notre Dame. Too many other schools with bright new reputations are making too many good offers. Rival recruiters score points by warning boys that Notre Dame's strait-laced supervision eliminates a carefree campus life; e.g., freshmen have a 10 p.m. curfew. After one mauling of Notre Dame this year, a Chicago priest cracked to a Protestant friend: "I didn't mind so much that the lad was kicking those extra points against Notre Dame, but I did mind his crossing himself before each...
...fast as the ivy at Britain's tradition-loving Oxford University. Still technically on Oxford's books are Latin-couched laws forbidding gladiators, rope dancers and deer hunting on the premises. More irritating, because still enforced. are such medieval regulations as the one that imposes a midnight curfew on all undergraduates. Fighting the rules is generally futile. It is Oxford legend that when one modern undergraduate demanded the pint of ale to which he was entitled when taking examinations, the university proctors duly presented him with his tankard-together with a stiff fine for not wearing a sword...
Rumors have been prevalent: that a change of the 8 p.m. limit on Saturdays when the football team plays in Cambridge might be forthcoming, and there had been some undergraduate sentiment for adding Saturday's four lost hours onto the Friday night curfew...
...Wide abuse" of 1 a.m. privileges has forced the Summer School to enforce curfew rules strictly...
Cautiously, tentatively, Seoul came back to normal. The crowded tea shops buzzed with excited conversation among Koreans who still could hardly believe their power had toppled Syngman Rhee's twelve-year rule. When the curfew was moved up to midnight, jazz bands resumed their raucous ways and the noisy, bright-lit bars were awash with tipsy revelers and eager ladies of the evening. In fact, except for a few damaged buildings and the soldiers guarding the National Assembly, there were no outward signs at all of Korea's fortnight of revolt...