Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great gush, like a city that has survived a plague, the campus came to life. Bare walls suddenly had pictures; windows had bright new curtains. In the roadways, cars were emptied of bridge lamps, wastebaskets and even a pair of antlers. In one house a janitor wrestled with a trunk ("I should be twins today"). The Head of House tried to make everyone feel at home. "The girls get prettier every year," she burbled. "At least we think so for the first few days...
...Usually the date is from M.I.T. or Harvard ("practically at our doorstep"). If he doesn't take her off some place for some dancing and probably a couple of drinks, she can keep him on her campus, sit with him on a bench by the lake, or even take him to class. If she takes her "special" to Tupelo Point three times and he still hasn't proposed, she can, according to tradition, throw him into Lake Waban...
...popular Philosophy Professor Thomas Hayes Proctor: "Almost the sole sign of success is to get your man before graduation." Though almost all want to work for a while after graduation ("at some glamorous job," says one dean, "that will take them to Paris"), few aim at a career. But even most career girls nag their married professors to find out how a career can be combined with marriage. If the marriage rate of the past is any indication, eight out of ten will become wives. Moreover, as far as their deans can see, they are marrying younger than before...
...delegates' differences were resolved when they went to Castel Gandolfo. There, Pope Pius XII gave the church's approval to Bacala's views. Obtaining semen by unnatural means was wrong, said the Pontiff, even for married couples. But medical aid to get the semen from the vagina into the uterus, after normal intercourse, was permissible...
...Even among artificial aids for insemination by the husband, Dr. Bacala drew sharp distinctions. Obtaining semen by masturbation or prostatic massage could not be countenanced, he thought. The use of aspiration or testicular puncture was not acceptable. "The only way which presently seems open is that of postcoital artificial insemination between spouses . . . What medical science does [in such cases] is to further pump or inject the semen, coitally deposited, right into the external os, into the cervical canal, hoping that the teeming millions of injected spermatozoa may swim their way up ... to meet an ovum.. This method, utilized...