Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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There was little pressure for a change. The most common lady visitors were mothers, and football weekends were not the bisexual affairs that they have since become. Cheering sections at the games were almost entirely male, and the general attitude toward women was one of tolerant disinterest. During the middle twenties, when a couple of Smith Hall (now Kirkland House) students tried to take advantage of the provision for bringing women into dining halls for meals before special social events, there was a terrible uproar...
...understanding was that students might entertain unchaperoned women in their rooms, provided they had first obtained permission of the master or senior tutor, and provided at least three persons were to be present in the room. This meant that permissions would ordinarily be granted only on weekend nights when general "open house" conditions prevailed...
...asking abolition of the advance permission and chaperone requirements, the committee claimed that they former was unnecessary since permission was always granted, and the latter was not enforced in practice and could not be enforced under any system. Both, it felt, were contrary to the "general tendency at Harvard to treat undergraduates as adults...
...There is general dissatisfaction with the situation at both Columbia and Brown, Brown's dormitories even lost their lounges two years ago because of breakage of furniture and alleged "sexual misconduct." Columbia's lounges are unpopular; though they are open mill 12, they are devoid of all amenities, and from 10:30 on there is a guard who makes periodic close inspections. Cornell seems to be happy with Williard Straight Hall lounges and its fraternities; there has been no agitation for any kind of room permission...
...conduct of human beings towards one another," Mill observes in his essay "On Liberty," "it is necessary that general rules should for the most part be observed, in order that people may know what they have to expect." Mill's words are wise words and deserve attention. But just as the philosopher realized that by applying the rule of reason there had to be limitations on liberty, so reason dictates that there must be limitations on limitations lest they become tyrannical...