Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Have children forgotten how to entertain themselves? Last week British grownups got the lowdown from an exuberant piece of scholarship: the Oxford University Press's new Lore and Language of Schoolchildren* TV may seem to be taming the last of the world's savage tribes, report Authors lona and Peter Opie, but juvenile culture is indestructible...
...council voted, however, to send Recommendation 4, proposing that no student be allowed to entertain women in his room on more than three afternoons a week, back to the committee. The members instructed the committee to eliminate any reference to "trading" one or more afternoons a week for Friday evening hours, but to indicate that the Council would be willing to accept changes in the afternoon schedule proposed by the Faculty...
John Harvard's ghost appeared briefly on the scene to predict that the Crimson would trounce the Tigers 60-14 in revenge for last year's 16-14 defeat. He also guaranteed that each cheerleader would do 35 push-ups to entertain the crowd at today's contest...
...Student Council committee yesterday recommended a three hour extension of Friday night parietal rules and a concomitant limit on the use of afternoon hours. While urging that existing afternoon hours remain the same, the committee proposed that no student be allowed to entertain women in his room more frequently than three afternoons a week...
...fond memory of many alumni who will be at the field today is the near riot at Yale in 1953. En route to Columbia the Band stopped off to entertain at Harkness Commons at 2:30 a.m. As students booed and threw various objects and foodstuffs, New Haven police arrested the whole Band for parading without a license and breach of peace. Also arrested was an off-duty policeman who enjoyed the music enough to step up and direct the Band in "Yo Ho!--the Good Ship Harvard." Bail was posted and the group was once again...