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...proctor was a stickler for the rules. “If there was too much carousing, if there was too much bad language, if there was the slightest hint of a girl’s voice after 11 o’clock, you were in trouble,” Phil says. Luckily for Phil, other, more tolerant proctors—such as his—helped their boys. “It was well understood that if you were with a girl after 11 at night, you were going to be doing something very quiet,” he says...
With so many restrictions, dating became a process, whether you were following the rules or not. And with so few chances to make an impression, men and women always tried to look their best. Phil remembers nervously brushing his teeth to freshen his breath before calling a girl on the phone...
Dates may have been formal then, but they were also more frequent and less serious. Phil dated “a slew of girls,” although not many Quad residents, in his first two years at Harvard and felt he never got to know any of them well...
...school was becoming progressively more egalitarian,” Phil says of his freshman spring. “We were all very affected by the evolution of the hippie movement and the anti-war movement. We came as a college, ready as a group to change the things that didn’t make sense...
...room, which, coincidentally, ended up becoming hers. He helped her store and move her belongings into the third-floor suite, right next door to a room of four boys, “all of whom looked pretty appealing to us,” Barbara says. One of them was Phil...