Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be just like old times next Tuesday evening when the Masters of the seven Houses get together for their monthly meeting. For the first time in three years, the agenda will feature a student petition for extended hours to entertain ladies in the Houses. Once again, the sound of fists hitting table and of statements like "Let's keep this a man's college" and "By God, they're even bringing girls into Chapel now!" will echo through the smoke-filled air. The parietal rules fight will be on in full force...
...while they toyed with the idea that not less than two women could visit in a student's room at one time--the "safety in numbers" philosophy--but this was eventually-dropped. Finally, after several student petitions and much debate it was decided that upperclassmen could entertain women in their rooms between the hours of 1 and 7 p.m. on all days of the week...
Even then the women might have subsided if Hartini had been content to accept the modest status of second wife. But she briskly moved her whole Solo household and her five children into Bogor Palace, began to entertain old friends, receive officials and carry on for all the world like Indonesia's First Lady, while Fatmawati shrank into the background. Whenever Soekarno traveled, Hartini traveled with...
...reversed their field in 1953 and decreed that late room permission would apply on all weekends except those of home football games. Consequently the play-away is now the thing. Undergraduates in Cambridge will celebrate this evening because, for the second of only three Saturdays this fall, they may entertain women in their rooms until...
...there is a House Dance--however, thousands of upperclassmen and their dates will still be forced out of rooms in the Houses at 8 p.m. Wealthy students--and the College still has some--can then take their girls to Boston and spend $10 to $20 for an evening's entertainment. Undergraduates who, after buying their date's football ticket, still have $3.60 to spend can push their way into a House Dance. But students who dislike gaudiness, crowds, or exorbitant prices would still prefer to remain in their rooms, where they can entertain inexpensively and maturely...