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Laws " in the University were in full force ; the 

 student who spent his Sundays at home in Boston 

 must bring out a certificate showing that he had 

 attended divine service twice ; no discretion was 

 allowed the parents. 



College athletics were in their infancy, as the 

 little gymnasium still standing serves to remind 

 us. There were rowing matches, but baseball had 

 not come upon the scene, and football had just 

 been summarily suppressed. The first college 

 exercise in which I took part was the burial of the 

 football, with solemn rites, in a corner of this 

 Delta. On Class Day there was no need for clos- 

 ing the yard ; there was room enough for all, and 

 groups of youths and maidens in light summer 

 dress, dancing on the green before Holworthy, 

 made a charming picture, like that of an ancient 

 May Day in merry England, save for the broiling 

 heat. 



The examination days which followed were more 

 searching than at other American colleges. The 

 courses of study were on the whole better arranged 

 than elsewhere, but during the first half of the 

 course everything was prescribed, and in the last 

 half the elective system played but a subordinate 

 part. The system of examinations did not extend 

 to the Law School, where a simple residence of 



