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...staid and sober chroniclers of the time, and these old scholars were inclined to shake their heads at such fruitless effort. As the games seemed to give the young men a certain mental alertness, the scribes suggested in their writings that perhaps the sports should not be forbidden...
...Bertrand Russell, the English Liberal philosopher, who has been forbidden, under the provisions of the British military service act, to leave England for the purpose of lecturing at Harvard University, and who has been commanded to live within a restricted area of England, where his movements can be strictly observed, is by no means the spy or marplot which these prohibitions might be taken to indicate, He is merely so much the philosopher that he cannot take a national view of the questions involved in the war. Like Woodrow Wilson, he regards the whole world as mad, with one nation...
...little disposition manifested by the instructors to establish and confirm a friendship between the student and themselves"; it attacked with keen satire compulsory church attendance on Sunday and the system of compulsory chapel. After its third issue the Collegian was suppressed by the Faculty, and the editors were forbidden under pain of expulsion to publish any paper whatsoever...
...midshipmen, is needed by the average youth in order to get by the examinations. Others claim that the midshipmen felt, on account of the special need for officers in the navy, that they would be treated with more than the customary leniency. Moreover, the instructors have been forbidden to indicate in any way the nature of the examination...
...stay in College after one was admitted, for all students had to refrain from playing cards or trading valuables worth more than sixpence. The use of spirituous liquors and of tobacco, unless the permission of the President, one's parents and a physician, could be obtained, was strictly forbidden. All men were supposed to be in their rooms before 9 o'clock at night, and on Sunday were forbidden to leave them for walking, visiting, or any other unnecessary business. "Idle, bitter scoffing, offensive gestures, the wearing of indecent apparal or women's apparal" made one liable to a whipping...