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Bandsmen, moreover, cannot be stags at social functions since by definition a stag must attend every event. Rehearsals and concerts make this impossible for the Band, Alpers said. "Bar privileges" after the Harkness concert have become more and more limited. And although the Bandsmen can later attend a Leverett House dance, they would arrive two hours late...

Author: By Richard B. Ruge, | Title: Restrictions Force Band to Vote Not to Perform at Commencement | 2/13/1962 | See Source »

...keep the all Harvard-Radcliffe event from becoming too formal, the sponsoring Freshman Class Committee decided yesterday to sell tickets at 50 cents a person and invite both boys and girls to come stag. Anyone feeling strongly about bringing a date may, with difficulty, purchase a couple ticket for two dollars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Ban Dates, Slate Ice Skating, For Radcliffe Riot | 1/10/1962 | See Source »

...seemed like just another Christmas dance in Goa's capital city of Pangim. Still dressed in their jungle-green combat uniforms, 300 Indian army officers of the conquering "Black Cat" 17th division shuffled in time to the music. Patiently the 300-man stag line waited to dance with the only women who had been inveigled to attend the dance-three lonely Goan girls. "They don't like us," said an Indian officer. "They don't want jungle green here. They want white skins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Morning After | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...poet's entities, born of a fancy quite as wild as Will's. "Sweet Puck," for instance, Shakespeare's "knavish sprite," is imagined as a sort of naughty Ariel, a boy with the soul of a faun. "Jealous Oberon" is a grand abstraction of stag, noble and serious but indifferent, a thing of dells and vanishings. a silence of eyes, the spirit of the forest watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Well Met by Moonlight | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

Despite the swarming hunters, there are so many deer (in some areas 30 per sq. mi.) that there are roughly only three hunters for every legal buck (one with antlers at least 3 in. long). All are looking for the "big horse," a stag weighing over 200 Ibs. with a ten-point rack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Booze & Buckshot | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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