Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final method of saving funds, House dining halls could be closed on Sunday mornings. The suggestion, however, that they be shut during an entire weekend penalizes the majority of students who remain in the Houses or bring dates for an inexpensive meal. The dining hall, in the last analysis, serves as the center of a House weekend, as the locations for dances and for dining...
Taylor also re-emphasized his position against closing any House dining halls on weekends. He cited the influx of family, friends, and dates for football games which make weekend meals more crowded than usual. Further, students coming from closed Houses would create "an awful jam" in the open dining halls, he said...
...normal Saturday midnight hours in the Houses were granted except for the particular House sponsoring a dance for the weekend, Masters might discover that the result would be something less socially disrupting than the general sortee by undergraduates into the Cambridge community which now occurs...
...Some of the House dining halls could be closed for one or more meals during the weekend. Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, criticized this proposal strongly; he pointed out that House dining halls are often more crowded on Saturdays and Sundays than during other parts of the week...
...Last weekend Old Grad Rockefeller ('30) made a trip back to his alma mater for the football game with Holy Cross. Considering that the expedition was billed as "nonpolitical," he played some energetic political football, glad-handing every Dartmouth man within reach, tossing big-grin hellos at every housewife, policeman and infant within shouting distance. When he arrived in Manchester the night before the game, Rockefeller-for-President rooters were waiting with a brass band and a batch of placards reading. WHAT A FELLER. ROCKEFELLER and LET'S ROLL WITH ROCK. Next morning Rock rolled over to Concord...