Word: weekending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...purse strings for all class dances, and that it has set an unofficial limit of around $2000 to be spent on a band. Unfortunately, the students often want to hire a big name band, which usually requires a larger sum of money. But the University feels that a big weekend doesn't necessitate a big name band, Robert Minnerly, chairman of the 1956 spring weekend, explained. "They fear the band would send an inferior group of players for an exorbitant sum," Minnerly added. "They're afraid the students will get gypped by big-time promoters." He added that the only...
...however, it would seem that the administration is entirely justified in treating the undergraduates as babies. One of the loudest cries raised by some anguished students concerns the liquor ban of last spring. The official letter announcing the ban read as follows: "Because of excess and boisterousness during Spring weekend, the serving of alcoholic beverages at social functions is prohibited for the remainder of the academic year, except for approved senior activities during commencement week...
When one examines the facts of this case, one can readily see why the administration felt obliged to move in. At a jazz concert in the quadrangle that weekend, the state of inebriation reached such a height that a beer can narrowly missed Dean Durgin's wife. Also that weekend, a half dozen "happy" undergraduates tore up bushes in the quadrangle and did damage amounting to about $3,000. Under these circumstances, the ban might best be considered a curtailment of license rather than an abrogation of liberty...
...most likely, it is a result of the University's policy of slow liberalization. For once students have been given some freedom, they naturally want more and more, and they tend to regard the denial of it as unjust repression.The Quadrangle: scene of "excess and boisterousness" during Spring weekend...
Champions in all three leagues will next weekend. Yale's Saybrook College play the Yale inter-college champions will probably place first in football and Berkeley has already captured the soccer crown...