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...University of Omaha has had the ''Municipal" in its title for only four years. Before that it was as rock-ribbed a private Presbyterian institution as ever had a 9 o'clock curfew for students under 18. One year of Depression was enough to break it and in 1931 the city took it over. The school board appointed nine regents and the regents called Dean Sealock of the Uni-versity of Nebraska College of Education to put the university on its feet...
...Have three good-looking young girls walking in single file, tolling school bells and carrying a Werewolf banner. They will sound a curfew for all who would be careful to avoid werewolves. The sign reads: . . . 'Bar Your Doors. Lock Your Windows. Go to the Strand...
Still laboring under its old delusion that the only good library is a closed one, University Hall by its present policy continues to give evidence of looking back with acute nostalgia to the days when curfew rang early and often for Widener. Though the shortcomings of the Father of Libraries have now been remedied on the whole, there is still room for considerable improvement with respect to Boylston and the House libraries if these are to be of maximum service to the students, particularly during the stress of the examination period...
Instantly the auditorium was a bedlam. Booing, shouting, shoving spectators tore chairs from the floor, heaved them into the ring, pulled down draperies, ripped out telephones. The riot lasted for a full half hour, ended only when Browning and Savoldi decided to defy the curfew and return to the mat. After another half hour, Savoldi flew feet first at Browning's chin (the "drop-kick"), missed, crashed on his back. Browning fell on him, won the match. Next day the Commission formally repealed its curfew order...
Added crisp Martha Steele McGrew of Tennessee, Major Lohr's able assistant and author of the curfew law. after an inspection of the Fair's night life: "After midnight about three-quarters of the Midway concessions had closed voluntarily. The chief objection to letting the others remain open indefinitely was the problem created by unescorted women who stay on the grounds late at night, too drunk to take proper care of themselves. We've had a terrible time keeping them off the trucks that are admitted to the grounds, to bring in supplies and collect refuse, after...