Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Coaltown and Capot finally met last weekend, the big surprise was that Maryland's knowledgeable horse players had made Capot a distinct second choice. Coaltown was the red-hot favorite at 3 to 10-just as though Capot had never measured his heart for size in the Sysonby...
...release of the students was apparently arranged by Bernard A. Barr, a New York attorney, who asked to speak privately with the judge before the nine a.m. trial. Barr, in town for the weekend, spoke with Judge Arthur P. Stone for five minutes, following which the judge let all the students go with a payment of $5 costs...
Even this is denied Princetonians on their biggest weekend, the one covering the Harvard or Yale game. This is the time when alumni choose to return and sleep aloft in their old clubs, and the College has forbidden any parties lest the grads be disturbed by first-floor merriment...
...extra-curricular entertainment on the weekend, Nassau men run into a blind alley, figuratively speaking. They aren't allowed to have cars, and they can't have women in their rooms after 7 p.m. Even the clubs keep an eye on darkened-room proceedings, for fear of being squelched by the University. Club men are never allowed in the women's quarters and not even in the building after...
Faced with these hindrances, Princeton men usually freight their dates from loading depots in New York and Philadelphia. The cost for shipping, storage, and deterioration averages out to $50, which hardly seems worthwhile in view of the weekend entertainment...