Word: entertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight at seven o'clock undergraduates will uproot themselves and their female guests and leave the Houses for the great outdoors. These men, deprived by the College of any place in which to entertain, are pushed into Boston's public night spots and theatres when they might normally choose to pass the evening in the relative comfort and sanctity of their rooms. It is a sadly warped social life that can include no private parties and that leaves a man idling away his after-theatre hour in a noisy cocktail lounge instead of in the easy talk and companionship that...
...these taboos real enough and important enough to justify distortion of the normal social life of the student? The University itself has answered this question in two clearly-cut cases. In the graduate schools, students are permitted to entertain women in their rooms until midnight. And in the hallowed Houses themselves, the parietal bars have been let down for tutors and entry proctors...
...these rulings, the University has acknowledged that proctors, tutors, and graduate students alike have only one place where they may entertain and relax--their quarters. It has judged the social life of these men to be more important than the puritanical mores of out society, more important than the jittery nerves of mothers of local college girls, and more important than whatever publicity might--but almost never does--result in the scandal-hungry Boston press. It has also judged that the social life of undergraduates is not equally important...
Hughes' first plans called for a formal gathering at dawn. He had even cached a stock of brandy to entertain his cutaway-adorned guests. However, the austere aspects of the London affair made a less formal gathering imperative to good taste...
...good hotel room despite the fact that 1) she seemed to be acting as a front for bookies, and 2) her husband earned $100 a week and used $90 of it to pay off a $14,000 debt incurred in passing bad checks. Another woman used her room to entertain "boy friends" (one of whom threatened to knock the hotel detective's block off) and kept her five children playing in the lobby until midnight, to the distraction of the desk clerk...