Word: weekday
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...Naples, in the late weekday afternoon, a strange un-Neapolitan procession suddenly throbs to life. Hundreds of American cars, driven by buoyant, carefree American Navymen or their wives, begin their winding way through the ancient streets, far out to rented country villas or to the shiny new apartment buildings that crown the surrounding hills. Soon the flowered apartment terraces ring with the pleasant tinkle of ice cubes and buzz to the languid chitchat of the cocktail hour...
Last week, after six of his scholarship students were shaken up in a 3 a.m. automobile accident, Athletic Director Henry ("Hank") Crisp decided that athletic dormitory regimen should be tightened still farther. Henceforth, decreed Hank, the occupants of Friedman Hall would have to observe a flat 11 p.m. weekday curfew (12:30 a.m. Sundays), apply to their coaches for weekend passes, do four hours of compulsory study instead of two on week nights if they lagged in studies. This was too much for the brawny 'Bamans. Above an entrance to the dorm appeared a sign: "Don't talk...
...freshman proposal had advocated changing the parietal rules in the yard to conform with those for the rest of the College. Though freshmen would have lost the weekday hours between 1 and 4 p.m., they would have gained time until 11 p.m. on Saturday night. The Sunday hours from 1 to 7 p.m. and weekday from 4 to 7 p.m. would have been retained...
...Outlook, Right Leadership. The kits were designed for the use of discussion leaders, who are instructed to organize gatherings of laymen, run off the problem-posing filmstrips and the accompanying recordings, then turn up the lights for a discussion of how best to play the often tricky game of weekday life. The discussions, not the kits, are supposed to supply the answers...
...just don't have much time to do anything but my work." The social chairman of the Demolay agrees with him. He complains of the difficulty of scheduling social events during the week. "People always have quizzes coming up," he says, "and they just won't come on a weekday night." Especially significant is the case of one student who considered himself an extra-curricular demon and took pride in the fact that he could "always arrange to have two free nights a week...