Word: parietalsã
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...there were Democratic and Republican clubs, and some classmates followed national news, but the real issue of the day was “parietals??—the rules limiting women’s visits to the dorms (1 to 4 p.m. on weekdays and until 8 p.m. on Saturday nights for freshmen). My dorm entered campus politics by nominating a nonexistent candidate for the freshman council and parading him through the yard. The Crimson viewed the Student Council as a bunch of “talkative politicians” with “little discernible reason...
...Harvard, at Memorial Hall. They even hired a strip tease artist to perform for us.”While Harvard provided strippers to entertain their male undergraduates in the 1950s, Harvard House Masters strictly regulated how men entertained women in the dormitories. For the Class of 1956, parietals??the hours when women were allowed in male dormitories—restricted how they interacted with the opposite sex. According to the rules, women could be in male dormitories until 11 p.m. on Saturdays and from 4 to 7 p.m. on weekdays for upperclassmen.Parietal rules at Harvard date back...
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