[Magdalen] ATTN The Scotts !!!

[Jay Weigel]

The prep school my brother attended required jackets and ties in class and
in the dining hall. However, nothing was said about what *kind* of ties,
about buttoning the top buttons of shirts, or about the wearing of
socks(!). My brother owned several outrageous ties, and reported that none
of his classmates buttoned those pesky top buttons or wore socks except in
the deepest parts of the winter.

On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 2:00 PM Chad Wohlers <chad at satucket.com> wrote:

> 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?).
>
>