Word: elevens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Walter Minor, 36, was nominated for membership on the eleven-man Interstate Commerce Commission, the youngest man ever named to the oldest regulatory body in the U.S. Government...
Radcliffe, Wellesley, Simmons, Jackson, Wheaton, and most other women's colleges set a one o'clock deadline for their students. It is virtually impossible for an undergraduate to announce at eleven o'clock, "Well, time to go home now." His alternative is to seek some new diversion for the remaining two hours...
...Housemasters granted the privilege of entertaining women in the Houses on Saturday until eleven because they reasoned that the extension would relieve a strain on the student's pocketbook and provide an alternative to elbowing through Cronin's or parking on Storrow Drive. The change has improved conditions, but it has not provided a real solution...
...most popular objections to lifting the eleven o'clock deadline have been academic and moral. Roommates, the argument goes, would be irresistably drawn from the House libraries to their rooms and would be placed under intolerable psychological strain, seeking culture or sleep with only one wall separating them from their roommate's date...
...witching hour. Considering that the women's colleges have already allowed their girls out until one, however, this thesis seems somewhat far-fetched. As a matter of fact, the banner of propriety might fly higher if activity were confined to students' rooms. Anyone who has left Cronin's at eleven-thirty and driven along Storrow Drive to Wellesley would almost certainly suspect that the best interests of propriety might be served by allowing students to remain in their rooms...