Word: hourse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In its much ballyhooed report, released yesterday, the committee also proposed that any cutback in hours on Saturday nights during the football season be balanced by an extension to midnight on the preceding Friday.
Stressing the failure of the present rules "to fulfill the social-emotional needs of a weekend oriented dating pattern," the report itemizes statistics showing that only 5.5 per cent of polled under graduates use the afternoon hours more than three times a week.
The report further discusses what it calls "the hidden issue of morality" as a factor necessitating the limit on week day hours. "More than likely, it is predominantly the 3.3 per cent who are using these afternoon hours (five times a week) in the pursuit of pleasures worth publishing," the...
Extending Friday night hours, the report continues, "is realistic in the sense that it does fulfill the needs of normal dating" as evidenced by the poll taken last spring.
Considering the argument that Friday night is a work night, the report asks rhetorically "are not the hours of 4-7 p.m. work hours also?"