The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-25

| lectures and other college functions
and after dinner in the evening
Lines are abolished as a punishment
taverns, or a nay rate, restaurants are
tolerated; tobacco shops are universally
and shamelessly frequented. The
phrase games which cause danger tC
life has been held out to include Rug
by football. The rule as to driving is a
curious instance of the caprclousness
of unwritten law; one can obtain leave
to drive a dogcart; driving tandem is,
however, strictly forbidden and sternly
suppressed.
one of the best features of Oxford is
this, that a mans parentage is never
discussed or inquired into. 1t IS taken
for granted that he is gentleman,
whatever his appearance may be, unless
he proves himself to be the contrary.
This is of course, only a general rule,
to which there are exceptions some
! times we may hear a man express con-
, tempt for his neighbor because he is
nobody, and complain that the unlvers-
| ity is open to "all sorts of bounders"
nowadays. Such men are happily rare;
| in general patTician and plebelan I'VE
on terms of amlty with one another TO
! their common advantage. This is hard
! ly the case with the unattached stud
! ents (they call them "toshers" in var
sity slang). Living apart, and outside
the pale of college life, they do not get
the opportunities which come in the
way of the college men, and so they
have none of those feelings of solidarity
and esprit de corps which knit together
men of the same college and tend to
place them on the same footing. Hence,
it is always well to enter at college If
eos ible at any rate during part or
ones time at the varsity, for it is the
college life which supplies that peculiar
training which is one of the chief W.
tues and advantages of university
career.
Readers of that inimitable novel,
"Verdant Green" will remember many
mistakes made by the hero. They
were mistakes which he could not well
avoid, as they were breaches of I'M
written law, which, as a law of details,
is most difficult to learn. Some of the
rules etiquette seem to trivial to be
mentioned: they concern dress the
proper way Of wearing academicals
and thousand other details. One Gu
rious point is that undergraduates new
err shake hands with one another. Ii
you ask twenty freshmen to breakfast
the probability is that eighteen of them
will nstinctively hold out their hands
to you on entering the room Ask the
same twenty men a week or two Later
and not one will do so; a good morn
ing and a nod will be all that you will
get. This custom applies only to UNI
dergraduates, and not to dons. 1t is
customary to shake hands with a don.
Indeed, a good story is told of a young
varsity man, elected fellow OF his col
lege at an early date. Shortly after his
election he gave a breakfast party to
sundry of his college friends, who We're
still In statu pupillari. To his horror,
when they came in they all shook hands
with him. They looksd on him as a
don, though he had spent his under
graduate days with them.
The etiquette of dress is most confus-
ing AS mentioned above, the sub !
fuse hues of the statutes have been
by common consent Still, up |
to quite recent times it was considered |
CONNIE II faut to put on dark clothes on |
But theirs Is lost cause. |
Time was when even the river was a |
forbidden joy on the Sabbath; now 1t |
swarms in the summer with punts and |
Canada canoes. Caps-that is to say |
cloth caps--Were tabooed on that day; !
now they are to be seen in thousands, !
though the prejudice still exists, Smok-
ing a pipe in the streets on Sunday is
still looked upon with great disfavor.
In the present state of the law both |
caps and pipes are considered undigni-
fed on the Sabbath and those who |
wish to don the one and smoke the 9TH
ar during their Sunday walk usually |
sneak out of town by some byway. A
few more years will pass and this nee
assity for concealment will die out. 1t
8 only few years since smoking of
any kind on any day in the street was
hought low; then came the concession
n favor of cigars and cigarettes; next
he pipe smoker was enfranchised ex-
,ept on Sundays: now he is in fair
way toward attaining his right on that
lay also.
Carrying parcels through the streets
Is forbidden by general undergraduate
1t is possibly good custom
rom an aesthetic point of view, but it
S certainly inconvenient when one has
lalf dozen friends to tea unexpected
Y and have to go out into the town to
orage for provender. Some punctilious
men, under the aforesaid circumstances
Walk out in cap and gown, and dexter
usly conceal the offending package in
he folds of the latter part of academic
arb. This savors of subterfuge.
A common mistake of freshmen, and
pc which never fails to arouse laugh
Ell of the onlookers, is to go for a walk
\ cap and gown. The guileless youth
4 his first term has a vague idea that
e is always liable to be proctorized if
e appears without his academicals.
nd he consequently sets forth for a
square mortar board
dorning his head, and thirty inches of
lack ALPACA dangling gracefully from i,
is shoulders. Occasionally one may =,
&c wretched man on the top of Head
lgton HILL in cap and gown the cyno-
are of every eye; even the dirty little
agamufn of the Oxford streets has 4
1t enough to see the jest, and points
lbs at the unfortunate victim.
To carry a ctirlr yuht1a in pop and !