How would the fresh freshman like it if he, entering a public building, filled with a large number of people, and committing a slight breach of etiquette through ignorance, should be saluted by the audience with a lively stamping. Feelings such as he would doubtless experience in such a situation must have been experienced yesterday noon, by the party of middle aged ladies and gentlemen who visited Memorial Hall at the lunch hour. And all because the gentlemen of the party were ignorant of the rules of the hall, and did not remove their hats. The stamping which greeted them was simply outrageous, and its authors well deserved the hisses showered upon them by the more staid of the members. Although the greater number of men who engaged in the sport were freshmen, a considerable number of upper-classmen, shame be upon them, encouraged the mischief-making youngsters by stamping themselves. The head waiter knows his busines well enough to correct any breaches of etiquette which visitors to the hall may make, and it is not necessary for freshmen, or upper-classmen of an equally youthful cast of mind, to take upon themselves the parts of censors.
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The Canoe Club Regatta.