Dakota Datebook: Written consent from parents

While today, many young adults consider college a time to become independent, in the early 1900s, college was a different sort of experience, and on this date in 1908, the University of North Dakota announced a new rule for co-eds: if they wanted to go downtown after 6 o'clock, they needed written permission from their parents.

This rule came to pass because one night, a number of students went to the theater instead of a law school dance, and a member of the faculty saw them there and reported them.

Dakota Datebook written by Sarah Walker.

"Dakota Datebook" is a radio series from Prairie Public in partnership with the State Historical Society of North Dakota and with funding from Humanities North Dakota.