Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, Perkins said, the house masters also agreed to cut the deadline in a house to the time at which a dance began in that house, regardless of the season. Individual housemasters did make this rule clear last spring when dance occasions arose in some houses...
...need for late Saturday rules on football weekends cannot be hidden behind the facade of the House dances, for they are not really alternatives. One of the purposes of the eleven o'clock rule is to give cheap entertainment to students. Many students cannot three-sixty for a dance. Many who can do so only for lack of a convenient alternative...
Continuation of the rule to football Saturdays would not be a carte blanche for revelry. The Masters, with a large chunk of discretion on parietal rules, can easily cancel the eleven o'clock permissions if they come in for wholesale abuse, either in spring or fall. Resident tutors and House attendants, in isolated cases, need no legal writs to enter rooms or break up parties that get out of hand. I view of last spring's performance, it seems that undergraduates can act more responsibility with social freedom than the Faculty thought. We hope the Masters will be willing...
...sure, however, how the married graduate students feel. The new rule is absurdly unjust. Few married men anywhere are without some kind of health and hospitalization insurance today. There is only one low family rate regardless of the size of the family. Even the employees of Harvard, among them a crowd of teaching Fellows, are offered Blue Shield and Blue Cross group rates. For the University to demand that these graduate students be doubly protected and twice taxed cannot be justified n terms of the students' own interests; they still have to keep their wives and children covered by family...
...force him to buy what he don't need. Few married students with the gripps would exchange home care for Infirmary routine; even fewer married and insured students would go to the Infirmary for anything more serious than the grippe. Single students have no real choice. Consequently the new rule amounts to a scheme for plugging the hole in the Hygiene Department's financial like with the fees from married students. According to the logic of the new rule we may expect that the solvency of the dining halls will be insured by making all students, married, single and commuting...