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...sixty-four demerits have little effect on most men. Besides, the trifling nature of many cases renders the idea of any penalties absurd. It would be an unpleasant thing to have a public for profanity sent home, but a public for noise or ball-playing in the yard bears no odium with it. At the worst, such offences are only offences against good manners...
...charges against a man do not appear to be substantiated, then it is that the undergraduates are given to discussing the present system of penalties. There will probably no one be found who thinks that a man, even if caught in disorderly conduct at one end of the yard, should be held responsible for like occurrences at the other end, merely because they happened the same evening. No officer, when he detects a thief at one place, charges him with all the thefts that have occurred the same night. To be suspended with many men means to lose their good...
...wish to suggest, what is not at all a new idea, that when students are amenable to the civil authorities they be left to them to be dealt with, that in cases of mere disorder in the yard or rooms the penalties be done away with. No one, I think, has noticed that smoking in the yard has become more frequent since the abolition of the rule against it. That the same result would follow in the case of disorder is probable...
...distinctly remember about him, for his body seemed ghost-like and unreal enough. It was like the eye of any old man, weak and watery, while he described my Hollis room as he knew it once with its sanded floor and two wooden chairs; or while he pictured the Yard with its five buildings, deserted but for an occasional boy in a long, bag-tailed black coat, three-cornered hat, and knee-breeches, running from room to room; or the President's cows feeding in the long grass and drinking from the pool of water that gathered where University...
...wish the College would lay plank walks in the yard. As we wade through our classic enclosure on the sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal-man at Washington turns the water into ice, as we gracefully measure our length in front of University, we think of this. We do not find fault with the management of our beloved institution, but we mildly hint that plank walks, such as are each winter laid on Boston Common, would be a blessing to Faculty and students...