All quotes taken from past issues of The Mac Weekly

Tuesday, Nov. 16, 1915 – Young Mac women beware! The Mac Weekly printed a stern warning to all first year women. “Freshmen girls are hereby given warning that it is a serious violation of the rules to accept dates with Senior boys or to allow themselves to be escorted home from class parties by an upperclassman.”

Friday Nov. 20, 1953 – Yes, history does repeat itself. The Mac Weekly announced that the student phone directory would be released, after a slight delay, by Dec. 1. “The Mac photo directory, this year to be called the Spotlite, is scheduled to appear on campus next week…The editors expressed their regret because the directory could not appear at an earlier date, but stated that a new and better book will soon be out.”

Friday Nov. 21, 1958 – The Mac Weekly announced that Pulitzer Prize winning poet W. H. Auden was to address the campus. Auden was an accomplished poet and professor of poetry at Oxford University in England.

Friday, Nov. 13, 1964 – Former Macalester professor Hubert Humphrey became the Vice President of the United States. Humphrey was a professor of Political Science at Macalester during the 1943-1944 school year. In a speech made after his inauguration, Humphrey recalled his teaching days at Macalester. “He used to tell his classes that if they didn’t like politics, if it was too ‘dirty’ for them, they should ‘get themselves a bar of political ivory soap and get in there and clean it up.’”