Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventy percent of Princeton students favor extension of library hours into the early morning during exam periods and before thesis deadlines, a poll by the "Dally Princetonian" revealed this week. Firestone Library is now open until 12 midnight every weekday...
...bottom level, the masters are sharply divided on the midnight deadline which has been the most frequent proposal. Those masters who support the change reputedly maintain that (1) a women in a student's room at 12 is no more immoral than a woman in a student's room at 8; (2) the "social tone" of the College is damaged more by forcing men with dates to spend their evenings in bars than by allowing them to have dates in their rooms; (3) the high cost of entertainment and Harvard's inadequate common room facilities work a definite financial hardship...
...unprecedented diversity of method has appeared in this parietal campaign. House Committee chairman put in a request for midnight deadlines for women guests on their football weekends. A petition calling for midnight permission every Saturday night throughout the year was circulated, and attracted over 2,000 signatures. One House Committee proposed a midnight deadline for groups of three or more couples. And a Student Council committee meeting met with a delegation of Housemaster to discuss the possibility of a change...
...most cases, the circumstances are different. Nearly every college has either fraternities or some rooms or buildings reserved exclusively for social functions. In these, weekend deadlines vary around midnight or 1 a.m., though there is usually some provision that chaperones be present and that entertainment be confined to well-populated areas...
...startling contrast to all the other colleges in this area is M.I.T., just a few hundred yards down the river. There, women are allowed in rooms until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays and until 9 on Sundays. There are no requirements concerning chaperones or signing in. As the rules put it: "We do not attempt to describe by means of rules what behavior should prevail when girls are present as guests. The only official request is that the students conduct themselves in a manner acceptable to other guests and to the other students in the dormitory...