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...College has since spread out a little. Rank riot and excess in the form of Cambridge streets awaits every sophomore, junior, and senior who leaves his room. The subway stands ready to rocket inmates of the Houses into "the company and society of such men who lead an ungirt and dissolute life," and all the chained gates in Cambridge cannot revive President Chauncey's ban on students entering military companies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Retro Me, Satanus | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...young Freshman! avoid the company or familiar acquaintance of persons ungirt or of dissolute life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MIDNIGHT VISITOR. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

Also no students could, "under any pretence whatever, use the company or familiar acquaintance of persons of ungirt and dissolute life," or be present at any "Courts, Elections, Faires, Traineings," etc., without leave; and, finally, they were not allowed to "stay out of the Colledge after nine of the clock at night, nor watch after eleven, nor have a light before four in the morning, except upon extraordinary occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME CURIOUS FACTS. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

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