Syriac and Hebrew; rhetoric, style, composition,
imitation and epitome; Bible: Tristius New Tes-
tament.
Many changes, however, were made in the cur
riculum during the first century of the college,
and the course lengthened to four years. Subse
quent to that period various schools were added
from time to time until now the university com
prehends the following departments: Harvard
College, The Lawrence Scientific school, The
Graduate school, The Divinity school, The Law
school, The Medical school, The Dental school,
The School of Veterinary Medicine, The Busacy
Institution (school of agriculture), The Univer
sity Library, The Museum of Comparative Zo-olo
gy, The University Museum, The Botanic Garden
and Herbanium, The Astronomical Observatory,
and the Peabody Museum of American Archeol
ogy and Ethnology.
While considering the earlier history of the uni
versity, it is interesting to note the early distinc
tion made between the upper and lower college
classes. Much of class tradition, especially the
ludicrous servility and contempt that falls to the
lot of the average freshman, is traceable to a cer
tain propaganda issued in Latin by President Dun
ster in 1642. Some of the precepts are given in
translation as follows:
1. No freshman shall wear his hat in the college
yard unless it rains, hails or snows, provided he be
on foot and have not both hands full.
2. No undergraduate shall wear his hat in the
college yard when any of the governors of the col
lege are there; and no bachelor shall wear his hat
when the president is there.
3. Freshmen are to consider all the other classes
as their seniors.
4. No freshman shall 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.
5. All freshmen (except those employed by the
college) shall be obliged to go on any errand (ex
cept such as shall be judged improper by some one
in the government pf the college) for any of their
THE FREE LANCE.
seniors, graduates or undergraduates at any time,
except in studying hours or after 9 o’clock in the
evening.
6. A senior sophister has authority to take a
freshman from a sophomore; a middle bachelor
from a junior sophister; a master from a senior
sophister ; and any governor of the college from a
master.
7. No freshman, when sent on an errand, shall
make any unnecessary delay, neglect to make due
returns, or go away until dismissed by the person
who sent him.
8. No freshman when sent out on an errand shall
tell who he is going for unless asked by a govern
or of the college..
9. When any person knocks at a freshman’s door,
except in studying time, he shall immediately open
the door, without inquiring who is there.
These precepts are alleged to have remained in
effect until the close of the 17th century.
(to be continued.)
It is to the interest of every man who earns his
living by the sweat of his brow to be paid in mon
ey whose value never depreciates. For when mon
ey is made up of honest dollars, the laboring man
may by a rigid and consistent economy—surely in
this country at least—lay by a competency suffi
cient to bring comfort and rest to the closing years
of life.
It is to the laborers interest that the conditions
which encourage speculation, either upon a chang
ing value of the money in which he is paid, or up
on the handling of the products of his labor be re
duced to a minimum. And with the laborer, pro
ducer and consumer are alike concerned; for when
there is speculations, either in the business me.
dium, or upon the products of labor, buying, sell
ing and investment will largely take place at pri
ces influenced by money in the hands of unscrup
ulous speculators who are quite independent of
THE SILVER QUESTION.
BY GEO. R. WEILAND, ’93