Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...services of more than 100 young men of brawn and promise. In return for the free education it gives them, most of the Alabama football, basketball and baseball players live a life apart in their own dormitory. Friedman Hall, and are regulated stiffly as to bedtime and weekend privileges, allowed little free time. In effect, the athletes are cut off from most of the good college life. They have few dates, seldom become campus leaders, are often looked down on by fellow students as hired freaks. "They're supposed to play ball and that's all," explained...
...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 to the prisoners." Growled a disgruntled senior: "This isn't Russia." Then, after...
Last May the Tigers ended a six-game Crimson winning streak amid sounds of Princeton Spring Weekend frivolity...
College registration (50 cents a person) has reached 250, and will be held again tonight in the Union and House dining halls. Radcliffe registration will also be open this evening at Agassiz, and Law School delegates can sign up this weekend...
...planning a supplement about college spring weekends for the May tenth issue of the Smith College Sophian. Please send us information concerning Harvard's Spring Houseparty Weekend--its history, program, and any material you consider relevant (or otherwise...