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The poll taken by the Daily Pennsylvanian, undergraduate newspaper, produced the more definitive results. The editors reported that they had asked questions about kissing on first dates and the advisability of petting of 292 girls at New England colleges and scores of others at neighboring schools.
Geographically the results indicated that the New England girls were inclined to be more frigid than their sisters farther south, 57 per cent of the New Englanders polled thought that petting was not immoral; 24 per cent, believed in kissing on the first date; but only 17 per cent thought...
According to a Harvard freshman, "There's too much talk about necking and petting already. It's more important for a girl to dance a good rumba and to know some of the fine points of football than to spend her time worrying about whether she should pet or not...
An M.I.T. student applies the theory of Eve seducing Adam to the problem of petting, which he calls "one of the girl's own making. You can't blame a boy for taking advantage of whatever opportunity presents itself. Some girls invite familiarities."
Joe Trotnyck, the janitor, compares the hall to Madison Square Garden: a different event each night. "But nothing really happens any more," he complains, "I always find couples petting in the dark corners on square dance nights, and several years ago some drunken Yalies crawled up the tower to steal...