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Another strange custom was a rule compelling a lower classman to keep his hat removed from his head while a member of one of the upper classes was in the yard. This custom was finally broken up by a young freshman named Hedge, who, when ordered to uncover by an imperious upper classman, responded to the command by a heavy blow of his fist on the nose of his superior and was supported by the President for his independence...
...remnant of the "flogging" system of the English college may be trace n the custom that obliged freshmen to run on errands for their higher brethren. A freshman never thought of breaking this rule, for if he did refuse to obey the command of a superior his disobedience would meet with the direst consequences...
...this latter preposterous statement that I would disprove, annihilate, subvert - leaving not one stone on another. Of all the emotions that rule mankind, the most universal, the most persistent, is the longing for rest; second to it, and hardly less all-embracing, is the desire for joy, for laughter - the sweet laughter of the Homeric Gods...
...face of great opposition and public disapproval, and was rather elated over her victory, which aggravated her recent rival. Charges of trickery were made on both sides, in which the uniform dignity of the Harvard correspondence appears very favorably. The Lowell Club, taking advantage of the existing rule that a challenge for the ball was to be followed fifteen days after by a game, and during the two weeks after the first game by two others; and knowing that, under the rule compelling amateurs to have severed their connections for one month previous with all other clubs than their last...
...publish to-day a communication complaining of some of the rules in force in the library. The writer urges the injustice of the system which causes a man to loose his privilege of taking out reserved books if he fails to return them within a few minutes of nine o'clock. He further says the fines imposed are too heavy, and that the new rule which prevents a man from transferring his privilege is unjust. On the last point the writer may have some ground for complaint; one often wishes to take out books in another man's name...