The rumor which spread about the number of men dropped from the freshman class last year shows how inaccurately students are likely to be informed about college discipline. Indeed, the field of misconception is not narrowed to the results of discipline, but extends over all the methods. The great majority of students have only the vaguest ideas as to the regulations that exist. We do not take the pains to familiarize ourselves with the regulations as they are, but accept, instead, various statements passed on from class to class. Very often students will even go to the college office and, with perfect sincerity, cite regulations which have nothing but a mythical existence.

Even if a student should not, on reflection, feel that a practically accurate acquaintance of the rules is a fitting part of every Harvard man's equipment, he must certainly reach that conclusion when he finds that he has been adapting his actions to some false standards. All the regulations relating to discipline, with the exception of occasional additions by the faculty, are embodied in three pages of a pamphlet on "Regulations for Students of Harvard College" which anyone may secure at the college office. This pamphlet is valuable, not only because it contains those regulations which really exist, but because it thereby furnishes a means for branding as false all other regulations which bid for belief.