<p>“I think most rules on overnight guests were universal. Curfews were just for women.”</p>
<p>I don’t think that that is the case. Signing in a female guest for an overnight stay was routine in most women’s dorms in the parietal-rules era. Wendy Wellesley had her high school friend Vanessa Vassar come and stay for the Harvard-Yale weekend. And it goes without saying that if 300 women all live in the same dorm, Sappho on the third floor could just find a “guest” from the second floor, and they were all “home” before curfew. I don’t know of any secular schools that did bed checks, even back in the 40s and 50s.</p>