Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Annex girls, as a rule, rarely go to another college for a weekend. For the most part, they are content to stay at Harvard and cheer for the College football team, unless they are in a particularly foul humor or madly in love with some Yale student. Anyway, as one girl said, the average Cliffdweller is basically much too lazy to pack up and take off for a whole weekend. The so-called unfeminine aspects of Radcliffe girls--green book bags and Knee socks, for instance--are actually a defense mechanism against the strain of looking beautiful all the time...
...times were changing. A Democrat was about to be elected President, several gigantic "Houses" were rising near the river thanks to a Yale man's largesse, and even the Faculty recognized that social regulations at the College could not remain frozen forever. The authorities easily agreed that the chaperone rule should go. But they had a hard time deciding how to replace it. For a while they toyed with the idea that not less than two women could visit in a student's room at one time--the "safety in numbers" philosophy--but this was eventually-dropped. Finally, after several...
...rule had been working well for 15 years, however. The Masters were reluctant to step in themselves, knock off a few early afternoon hours for no reason at all, and thus seem like consumate killjoys. Therefore they decided to wait, knowing that before long students would inevitably appeal for extended parietal hours, thus giving them an opportunity to re-open the whole issue with a vengeance. And in the fall of 1950, sure enough, the seven House Committee chairmen unanimously asked the Masters for permission to entertain women guests until midnight on the Saturdays of the Yale and Dartmouth weekends...
...Masters were still "studying" the question in the fall of 1951, when suddenly an uncomfortably cogent argument drifted up from New Haven. Yale, it seemed, had extended its upperclass parietal hours to 11 p.m. on all Saturdays, and had found the new rule working "better than we expected." Reminded that the Connecticut university had been founded "in protest against the liberalism of Harvard," and encouraged by the reduced demands of undergraduates here for 11 p.m. instead of midnight permissions, the Masters at last saw their chance to eliminate the 1 to 4 p.m. parietal hours and to compensate by granting...
Besides stressing the need for "keeping this a man's college," the Masters said little at the time about the reasons for cutting out early afternoon hours. If they were not talking about parietal rules in public, however, they were planning secretly among themselves to invalidate the new 11 p.m. Saturday curfew and revert to the 8 o'clock rule on all fall football weekends--the very time when students most wanted late hours...