Word: stag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stag Door Canteen...
...Lowell House from 8 to 12 o'clock. Open to members of the Class of 1943, graduating now or in June, and members of the Class of 1944, ocC's, and pre-meds graduating in February. Formal. Tickets can be obtained at the H.A.A. at $2.50 per couple, $2.00 stag, and at the Lowell House janitor's office the night of the dance...
...residents, dance invitations may be obtained at the H.A.A. office, where tickets can be bought at $2.50 per couple, and $2.00 stag. Admittance may also be secured at the Lowell House janitor's office at the time of the dance. All members of the Class of 1943, whether they are graduating in January or June, and all ocC, '44, and premedical students graduating in February are invited to attend...
...Strictly stag, Sir Max's party was a literary event to which invitations were as rare and precious as a half-pound of wartime beefsteak. Novelist Charles Morgan (The Fountain) and Poet T. S. Eliot begged so hard to come that they were finally admitted as "gate crashers." George Bernard Shaw declined with thanks, cracked: "I suffered too much from the celebrations at my own 70th birthday 16 years ago to make myself a party to the same outrage at the expense of an old friend who has never done me any harm...
...through the standard technique, phoning Wellesley after carefully thumbing the Year Book. He had visited the Raymor and met a girl who explained fully why she preferred Cary Grant to Spencer Tracy. The sound of Wrigley's Spearmint masticated to conga rhythm had become the usual price of a stag weekend. All that suffering had been spared these Freshmen...