[Magdalen] ATTN The Scotts !!!

[Chad Wohlers]

Same here at Lehigh, class of 1969 (except of course for the dress codes for women – there were no women undergrads then). We were required to wear shirt & tie to dinner each evening – I still remember someone who did so, coupled with boxing shorts, complete with a big “Everlast” across the front.

Alcohol rules, though – not so much. Strictly no alcohol in the freshman dorms, but otherwise it was informally acknowledged that Commonwealth of Pennsylvania liquor laws did not apply on the Lehigh campus.

Chad Wohlers
chad at satucket.com
Woodbury, VT    USA

From: Brian Reid
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 1:49 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] ATTN The Scotts !!!

When I graduated from the University of Maryland in 1970, these exact 
rules were still in effect there. There was also a rule that if you were 
caught drinking alcohol, anywhere in the world, at any time, whether or 
not school was in session, you would be immediately expelled.


On 2019-01-31 10:18, Scott Knitter wrote:
> Young Michigan State students are typically aghast when told that up 
> until
> the early 1970s, women had to wear a skirt or dress, and men a dress 
> shirt
> (and possibly tie) to dinner in the dorms; and women were not allowed 
> to
> march in the Spartan Marching Band. When I marched in 1978, some of my
> colleagues in the saxophone section were some of the first women 
> admitted.
> They typically were the best marchers and saxophonists in the band.
> 
> Things were quite different, not so very long ago (well, it was long 
> ago,
> but not SO VERY long ago, right?).