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...declining to enter into a "hat rush" with '90, that it was decided by upper-classmen that some punishment was necessary. Accordingly, the sophomores organized a court of equity, and three freshmen were arraigned and convicted. The sentence passed was that the number '91 should be painted in vermillon on a conspicious part of the persons of the accused freshmen. In the execution of the sentence, however, water was used instead of vermilion paint. The freshmen did not regard the joke in so agreeable a light as the rest of the college did, particularly as the sophomores had made trouble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dartmouth Sophomore Kidnapped. | 3/27/1888 | See Source »

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