Word: curfews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that his Administrative Board would go along with the Masters' desire for "liberalized" parietal rules. This is exactly what happened. The House Masters again piously told the Board what they thought parietal hours should be. This time the Board listened. On December 2, 1952, it proposed that the Saturday curfew be raised to 11 p.m., and that afternoon hours on every week day start at 4 instead of 1 p.m. Officially, the Masters had no idea how the afternoon change had come about, but privately, they could be seen to wink at each other...
...need for "keeping this a man's college," the Masters said little at the time about the reasons for cutting out early afternoon hours. If they were not talking about parietal rules in public, however, they were planning secretly among themselves to invalidate the new 11 p.m. Saturday curfew and revert to the 8 o'clock rule on all fall football weekends--the very time when students most wanted late hours...
When the facts finally came out, as the 1953 season rolled around, undergraduates were shocked. On September 26 three Masters admitted that they "favored" cutting the Saturday curfew to 8 p.m. during the football season. By the next day, a newly-formed Student Parietal Rules Committee had collected 300 fervent signatures on a petition urging the Masters not to do this. On September 29, however, the Masters admitted that they had actually decided to do it early the preceding spring, but had not mentioned the decision to a soul. The secrecy was a complete oversight, claimed Master Perkins: "We were...
Behind all the entertaining verbiage there were--and still are--a number of solid arguments on either side of the curfew issue for home football Saturdays...
...working-class sections of Buenos Aires. In the industrial city of Rosario, a rumor that Perón had left the Paraguay to lead a counter-revolt brought on a bloody clash between gun-toting soldiers and stone-throwing Peronista workers. The new government decreed an 8 p.m. curfew, warned that demonstrators would be shot...