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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inflation brought soaring prices for outside entertainment, the dam of the anti-feminists broke. House residents now entertained women guests in considerable numbers, and in 1946 the Masters, disturbed by non-masculine sounds emanating from House rooms in the early afternoon, decided that they didn't like the pre-4 p.m. part of the new parietal regulations after all. As one of them felt then--and still feels now: "In the grown-up world, you do your day's work and then you entertain a lady...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Parietals: "First, You Do Your Day's Work..." | 11/5/1955 | See Source »

...appeal, by demanding midnight room permission on all Saturdays, while the CRIMSON pointed out that "anything that can be done in the rooms between 8 and 12 can be done before 8." Tension increased steadily as the crucial October meeting of the Committee on Houses approached, and a pre-battle atmosphere took hold of the College. When Winthrop Master Ronald M. Ferry, was asked before hand for his views on the issue, he played it cagey: "General MacArthur made the mistake of opening his mouth this summer, and I can assure you I don't intend to do the same...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Parietals: "First, You Do Your Day's Work..." | 11/5/1955 | See Source »

...waiting to decide what action to take on any further objectionable films, the State legislature is already trying to re-insert a watered-down version of the Sunday censorship law. A bill now before Massachusetts Senate aims to revitalize the statute, but specifically excepts motion pictures from any pre-censorship. Apparently, Sunday censorship is still not quite dead, even though the screening room of the Commission of Public Safety no longer echoes to the snips of cutting scissors. "I could drive to the Commission blindfolded, I've been there so often," Halliday once said. He had better not forget...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Red Lights for Blue Laws | 11/5/1955 | See Source »

...band, cheerleaders, and University police will lead a pre-Princeton game parade from the Union to the I.A.B. The paraders will leave the freshman center at 7 p.m., wind through the Yard, out the Widener Gate, and down Plympton St. to Mill St. The march will continue on Mill to Holyoke and up Holyoke to the I.A.B...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan, Meigs Talk At Rally Tomorrow | 11/3/1955 | See Source »

...those pre-Freud days, the intellectual did not speak of the libido; he nattered about the Bump of Amativeness (at the base of the skull, down there at the sides). God had nothing to do with "oceanic feeling" or a "father image," but could be found right up there at the top, where He belongs, in the Bump of Veneration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Couch & the Calipers | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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