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...process of saying goodnight has degenerated," declared Dean Sherman before an appreciative audience, explaining that loose interpretation of the law forced its redefinition. Radcliffe Houses will be no man's land after 10 o'clock on weekdays and 11 o'clock on Sundays, as fond nocturnal farewells become an outdoor sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Dean Quashes 'Degenerated' Good-Nights, Moves Adieux Outside | 2/13/1947 | See Source »

...decent orchestra seats instead of the neck-craning royal box. Squiring Elizabeth was Lieut. Nigel Page of the Blues (Royal Horse Guards), and with Margaret Rose was Lieut. Charles Petherick of the Tins (Life Guards). After the show the Guardsmen took their "dates" straight home, bade them goodnight at Buckingham Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Dominant Strain | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...stood by the fireplace, with a tall glass of whiskey and soda at his elbow and talked wildly of persecution. The police, he said, were after him everywhere. . . . He quivered with excitement, hatred and imagined terrors. . . . When at last he found his glass empty [he] left without saying goodnight. I never saw him again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philosopher's Friends | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...with "assuming the position" to be paddled, with being waked up at 3 a.m. for more of the same, with being especially singled out for hazing because he laughed at upper classmen's high jinks as juvenile mumbo-jumbo. He turned in his pledge pin, asked Dean Scott Goodnight for assignment to a dormitory room. The Dean questioned him closely, found that his fraternity elders had not only paddled him 27 times, but had made him bake himself at the fraternity hearth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Veteran Hazed | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

Last week Dean Goodnight announced that he had written to Theta Chi's National President Frederick W. Ladue, demanding that the Wisconsin chapter's charter be revoked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Veteran Hazed | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

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