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XVII. No hacking, or hacking over, or tripping up, shall be allowed under any circumstances. No one wearing projecting nails, iron plates, or gutta percha on any part of his boots or shoes, shall be allowed to play in a match...
...much for externals. The chief reason for a decline of the interest felt in Class-Day may be found in the great increase of our classes. While the classes were one third or one half the size they are now, Seniors, with a few exceptions, could invite nearly all their friends in the vicinity to come and enjoy all the Class-Day exercises. Nowadays, with eight tickets to the Chapel and five to the tree, very few men can invite a large share of their acquaintance to these the most interesting parts of the programme...
Some people wish to have Harvard changed into an institution to which men may come as for a matter of business, to obtain instruction on one subject or another, staying and going at their own sweet wills, and paying accordingly. If the Elective System or any other influence should ever bring it about that all which Harvard graduates have in common is a date of the reception of a degree, and perhaps not even that, then Class-Day must die as a matter of course; but until that unhappy day comes, let us do anything in our power to preserve...
...opening to the joys of mere existence, demands nothing but air and light. A corner of blue sky above their heads is the limit of their horizon. Have criminals any less? They are divided by ages and classes in their plays, as well as in their studies. In the one as in the other they are always under the eye of a master. The dormitories resemble the wards of a hospital. Thirty or forty beds are arranged with systematic precision in a single room. A master is also here, as in the recitation-room, or the play-ground, to maintain...
...one who was at Springfield last summer must find it hard to believe that there is anything else which can rouse such an enthusiasm for boating affairs as was stirred up by the race at that time. There were far more Freshmen at Springfield than men from any other one class, and the interest was such that there was not a man but wished either to be on the crew himself or to express his sympathy with the oarsmen. The result of the race by no means killed this interest, and the manner in which the defeat was borne gave...