Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sign-out hours are an example of Mount Holyoke's protectiveness. Girls must be in their dorm by 11 p.m. on week nights, midnight on Friday, and 1 a.m. on Saturday. Catherine P. Robinson, Dean of Residence, justified the stringency of the rules: The Holyoke girl is really freer than she thinks. The college is responsible for minors, and we cannot run a community of 1600 girls without law and order. It is up to the institution to set standards of behavior...
Formerly any Radcliffe student could study in the Field House with a male companion until midnight. For the past three years a key has been available at the Holmes Hall bell desk, to be signed out when borrowed. This made the Field House the only building at Radcliffe legally available to 'Cliffies and their dates every night...
Radcliffe night watchmen have also reported that various students sometimes remained in the building after midnight. Some climbed in through the windows after hours. The situation prompted one Radcliffe official to term the Field House, "a necking hangout...
Seymour is a rambling description of the departed Guru by Buddy in a turgid, you-see-writing-in-the-making style, filled with such interjections as "I'm suddenly time-conscious. It's not yet midnight, and I'm playing with the idea of sliding to the floor and writing this from a supine position." The first story is an average New Yorker slice of life effort, the second a pretentious and unsuccessful attempt to play Gertrude Stein. Yet the book has been on the best seller list for some time...
When the delegates emerged from the meeting at midnight. West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, a staunch supporter of Britain, grunted. "We made only linguistic progress.'' A French delegate lightly added. "If we reach an agreement, it will be based on a misunderstanding.'' On Tuesday morning. U.S. Ambassador John Tuthill hurried around to the delegations to deliver a last-minute warning from President Kennedy, pointing out the grave consequences of a breakdown in the negotiations. The Six reconvened at noon to hear the West German proposal that was intended to save face for everyone...