Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement would eliminate the coat and tie rule for all meals except dinner. The old rule will be replaced by a "well-defined expectation" according to Dean Glimp, spokesman for the Committee...
Steven J. Kaplan '69, president of the HUC, said the Undergraduate Council had sent a letter to all House Masters asking that liberalization of the rule be left up to the individual House Committees...
...point of the old rule has been to have a certain standard of neatness," Glimp said. The liberalization of the rule was caused by new styles and ideas on dress which have changed that standard, he said...
Since the beginning of classes, the coat and tie rule has not been rigidly enforced in any of the Houses, though the Freshman Union has been customarily strict. Several of the upperclass Houses, notably Winthrop and Lowell, have been quietly experimenting with no dress requirements, creating confusion among students over the rule's status...
Last year, Yale University dropped all coat and tie requirements in the undergraduate colleges after students petitioned to end the rule, which college masters had found impossible to enforce...