A rumor is current in the college that the freshmen intend to revive the old-time custom of attending the theatre as a class. If the freshmen could only do this without creating a disturbance, there would be no objection made to the plan, but experience has shown that any such thing as a decorous theatre-party of freshmen is little short of an impossibility. The temptation to turn the occasion into a tumultuous demonstration of boyish deviltry is too great to be resisted, and this demonstration, though harmless enough in itself, it may be, is at once seized upon by the daily press as a text from which to print long disquisitions upon the degeneracy of student manners.
Owing to these unfavorable comments, the custom has of late been abandoned. We hope that eighty-eight will make no attempt to revive it.
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