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Last year the Student Council drew up a petition to change the eight o'clock weekend curfew and placed it before the board of Housemasters, who promptly tabled the issue. They gave the tenuous draft situation as their excuse. If many upperclassmen left college freshmen might have to fill the vacant spaces in the Houses making liberal room permissions unwise. But few men entered the armed forces over the summer, and there is no longer any basis for using the crisis situation as a bogeyman to block a change in the rules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Late Entry | 10/5/1951 | See Source »

...curfew hour drawing near...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: Radcliffe Survives Years of Sneers | 9/12/1951 | See Source »

When an attempt was made to bomb the Soviet legation last February, Shehu put Tirana under nightly curfew, ordered his police to shoot on sight anyone seen in the streets, set up secret courts to dispose of suspects. Shehu, known as "the butcher," commands a well-equipped army of 70,000, whose main function is maintaining internal order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: By Remote Control | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Second game called, curfew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...books serve as a check on the honor system since girls who come in after curfew sign in late and girls whose nights out are limited by academic probation betray themselves by singing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener library Equals 'Harry's Place' in Sign-Out Book at Annex | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

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