Word: curfew
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During the week the problem is different. It's not "where to take her," but "How to get her out?" 10:15 is the weekday curfew. If she doesn't make the deadline, the penalty is obscure, and rumored to be up to "J.B." (Judicial Board) and horrible. At any rate the goodnight kiss is interrupted regularly by consulting the watch. On weekends the porches are littered with such goodnight kissers, though some get the privacy of "smooch boxes," or storm doors...
...lives in a series of short spurts. Since the Carnival is one of the biggest of the periodic jolly times, the college thoughtfully extends dorm parietal rules until midnight on Friday and Saturday, a liberal attitude which hasn't quite made it as far south as Cambridge yet. The curfew in the fraternity houses is 4 a.m. and any brother found in the house with his date past that hour is liable to a five-dollar fine, or so we were told...
Fair's extension of the "women in rooms" curfew is the most liberal extension of parietal rules allowed by any Housemaster so far this year. Though many members of the House are not planning to attend the formal, this will be an opportunity for all to entertain in their rooms until the 9:45 p.m. deadline...
...Early Curfew...
Most other colleges held off on the curfew. Certainly a Harvard man is as safe and sane as one from Dartmouth. Boston Traveler, October...