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...Freshmen are to consider all the other classes as their seniors." "No freshman shall speak to a senior with his hat on; or have it on in a senior's chamber, or in his own if a senior be there." "When any person knocks at a freshman's door, except in studying time, he shall immediately open the door, without inquiring who is there." "The freshmen shall furnish bats, balls and foot-balls for the use of the students, to be kept at the battery...
...made the driver of the car turn around and go back to Cambridge on the same track he went in on. Stirring times then. We don't have any of them now. The fellows have toned down of late years. We don't have anything to do now except catch a freshman now and then for hooking a barber's sign, or something of that sort. Then they are so babyish about it there ain't any fun in it. They try to get out of it in some way or other. I tell you when the fellows got caught...
...corresponding grief in case of failure; in both cases, by narrow margins, the marks are given out, and perhaps one finds another man has beaten him by one or one and one-half per cent. Thus it runs down in the rank of scholarship, and hardly any ambition satisfied except that of the man at the head. The honor is usually a very empty one, a mere question of marks and marks. Thus, in many cases, the principal outcome is an extreme regret and disappointment at not having done just a little better. Turning to the "popular side...
...evil consists, we conceive, in the general practice of giving men their marks after each examination. The distinctions engendered are trivial in reality, but are usually the cause of much dissatisfaction, except to those happy-go-lucky creatures who do enough work to pass with certainty, and do not care for high rank. By certain general groupings - "very good," "good." "fair," etc., down to "not passed" - a sufficient distinction might easily be made in point of scholarship. If a man is working for honors, and deserves them, let him be informed of his success, and the man who fails...
...college is not indebted in the slightest, and students who are alive to their own interests should rally to the support of one of their number who is equally obliging and vastly more deserving. I write this solely as a matter of general interest, having no personal interest whatever except such as is shared with all students of the university in common...