Some of the rules respecting the subordination of the freshmen to the members of the higher classes which were in vogue a hundred years ago are most quaint. At Harvard College in the last century no freshman was allowed to "speak to a senior with his hat on, or have it on in a senior's chamber, or in his own if a senior be there." And every freshman, with an occasional exception, was obliged to serve as errand-boy for "any of his seniors, graduates or undergraduates, at any time, except in studying hours or after nine o'clock in the evening."
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