Word: evening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even this is denied Princetonians on their biggest weekend, the one covering the Harvard or Yale game. This is the time when alumni choose to return and sleep aloft in their old clubs, and the College has forbidden any parties lest the grads be disturbed by first-floor merriment...
...extra-curricular entertainment on the weekend, Nassau men run into a blind alley, figuratively speaking. They aren't allowed to have cars, and they can't have women in their rooms after 7 p.m. Even the clubs keep an eye on darkened-room proceedings, for fear of being squelched by the University. Club men are never allowed in the women's quarters and not even in the building after...
...closest city is Trenton, considered by Princetonians as the poor man's Scollay Square. Last year the Nassau Sovereign described Trenton as "a fair rose, a blushing maiden," with its tongue so far in its cheek that it almost choked. Students who go there are viewed as morally depraved, even if just for the movies...
This pint-sized merry-making is reduced even further for freshmen and sophomores, who aren't mature enough to join a club. For them there is nothing but a gymnasium dance and an intown movie. Last week underclassmen queued up for tickets to a "Prince-Tiger" dance: the office opened at 2 p.m.; the only people who got tickets had been in line since before noon...
...Even the furniture," McNiff said, "which was specially designed for Lamont, will probably be copied elsewhere...