Word: edict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only dance at Princeton to escape the edict will be the senior Prom tentatively scheduled for January 29, the night before accelerated Seniors will graduate this year. No restriction has yet been made on attendance at this dance, but in line with the recent university policy it is expected that it will be a modest affair...
...Harvard House Dances will probably remain undisturbed" Thomas H. Matters '43, president of the Student Council said last night, "since they do not involve widespread congestion of transportation facilities." It was largely the problem of transportation which led to the Princeton edict, banning large dances...
Under this edict from the Administration of the college, all dances which have been scheduled for this fall, winter, and spring will be cancelled in an effort to meet the demands of the government to prevent clogging the transportation facilities to Princeton...
Yale men prepared to shiver in their collective shoes this winter as the college sternly warned that all room temperatures would be strictly limited to 65 degrees. Perhaps the edict which struck closest to home was that ordering the lowering of the temperature of the hot water to mild glaciality...
Already all the tutoring services that have been cramming, outlining, and spotting exams for the Nassaumen have ceded to the edict and closed their doors to panting students. They have given in to panting students. They have given in to pressure, mainly from undergraduate sources, that started as long ago as April 1940, when the "Princetonian" followed up a CRIMSON editorial campaign against them...