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77 th e students who cause it. The cost of these meters could be easily defrayed b y the money already saved by the withdrawal of the g a s for the last three weeks. If, however, this w ill not cover it, the students would willingly consent to a little further deprivation until it could be effedted. In this way there would be no difficulty in locating the expense and both students and Trustees would be the gainers. I would at a ll events offer this as a probable solution and invite the attention o f the Trustees to its consideration. W ITH the advent of the large class o f ’96 began a general discussion for the abolishment of some of our time-honored College customs. The freshmen were scarcely settled when there went u p a howl from ’ 95 to dis continue the cane rush. A petition to that effedt was circulated among the tw o classes and some o f the more timid ones signed it. But sound sense and good old College spirit prevailed and we were consequently treated to one of th e best class contests ever seen at Hobart. No one was injured, the best of feeling was retained throughout and both classes came forth from the fray somewhat dismantled but covered with glory— ’95 for her sturdy fight and ’96 for her victory in wanning the rush and the cane. W hen the time for the salt rush came the ’96 men, of course, were not th e aggressors and therefore had nothing to say concerning that contest. They were merely to a<t 5 on the defensive and had that event taken place, they would, no doubt, have received their drubbing of salt, if it could not have been otherwise, with their usual good grace. After a lengthy dis cussion the salt rush wTas omitted, but this year, w e are happy to state, the cane rush survived and is now not likely\ to meet its death fo r some years at least. These customs should not be abolished; they are harmless in them selves and lend vigor to our class and college spirit. I n fact we want more o f them. But what w e do want to abolish or modify, and that right speed ily is that one particular custom carried out each year at the entrance of the freshman class. W e refer to a custom well known to every man in the college, and one which is no credit to the students of Hobart, from now on w e trust that every student may feel it his duty to aid in suppressing that which can be more fittingly termed a nuisance or a curse than a college custom.
