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Things were pretty much like that everywhere at least up until the early 1960s. My mother has told me about all the rules for women at Southern Illinois University Carbondale back in the mid-1950s when she attended. Women had a ten pm curfew on weekdays, eleven pm on weekends unless you had special permission from the housemother which would then allow you to stay out until Midnight! Everyone ate at the same time in the dining hall and you couldn't be excused from the table until everyone else at your table had finished. My mother said you had to learn to eat fast so the other girls wouldn't eat your dessert to get done faster. Also while they weren't official rules per se, a lady never wore dungarees (as they called them back then) outside of the privacy of the dorm!
And my students can't believe that at Ball State in the 1980s we couldn't have members of the opposite sex on our floors after 10pm, and no condom vending machines in the residence halls!
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