ore," until enough went
over to them from the other side to make it about equal. Then
one of the best kickers gave the ball a kick toward the other
side of the field, and there was a rush and an attempt to
get it past the goal. Nobody was allowed to pick up the foot-
ball, or to run with it in his hand. A fast runner and good
kicker who could get the ball a little outside of the line
of his antagonists could often make great progress with it
across the field before he was intercepted. It was allowable
to trip up one of the other side by thrusting the foot before
him. But touching an opponent with the hand would have been
resented as an assault and insult. The best foot-ball players
were not the strongest men but the swiftest runners, as a
rule.

The practice of hazing freshmen during a few weeks after
their entering was carried on sometimes under circumstances
of a good deal of cruelty. One boy in my class was visited
by a party of sophomores, treated with a good deal of indignity,
and his feelings extremely outraged. He was attacked by a
fever shortly afterward of which he died. During his last
hours, in his delirium, he was repeating the scenes of this
visit to his room. His father thought that the indignity
caused his death. Another was taken out from his room in
his night clothes, tied into a chair and left on the public
commons in the cold. It was a long time before he was discovered
and rescued. A heavy cold and a fit of sickness were the consequence.

There was an entertaining custom of giving out what were called
mock parts when the real parts for the exhibitions or Commencement
were announced. They were read out from a second-story window
to an assemblage of students in the yard, and after the real
parts had been given some mock parts were read. Usually some
peculiarity of the person to whom they were assigned was made
the object of good-natured ridicule in the selection of the
subject. For example, one boy, who was rather famous for
smoking other fellows' cigars and never having any of his
own, had assigned to him as a subject, "The Friendships of
this Life all Smoke."

When the parts were assigned for the Commencement, which
were given usually to the first half of the class, there was a
procession of what was called the Navy Club and an assignment
of honors which were in the reverse order of excellence to
that observed in the regular parts. The Lord High Admiral
was supposed to be the