“If any Freshman near the Time of Commencement shall fire the great Guns, or give or promise any Money, Counsel, or Assistance towards their being fired; or shall illuminate College with Candles, either on the Inside or Outside of the Windows, or exhibit any such Kind of Show, or dig or scrape the College Yard otherwise than with the Liberty and according to the Directions of the President in the Manner formerly practised, or run in the College Yard in Company, they shall be deprived the Privilege of sending Freshmen three Months after the End of the Year.”—­Laws Yale Coll., 1774, pp. 13, 25, 26.

To the latter of these laws, a clause was subsequently added, declaring that every Freshman who should “do anything unsuitable for a Freshman” should be deprived of the privilege “of sending Freshmen on errands, or teaching them manners, during the first three months of his Sophomore year.”—­Laws Yale Coll., 1787, in Yale Lit.  Mag., Vol.  XII. p. 140.

In the Sketches of Yale College, p. 174, is the following anecdote, relating to this subject:—­“A Freshman was once furnished with a dollar, and ordered by one of the upper classes to procure for him pipes and tobacco, from the farthest store on Long Wharf, a good mile distant.  Being at that time compelled by College laws to obey the unreasonable demand, he proceeded according to orders, and returned with ninety-nine cents’ worth of pipes and one pennyworth of tobacco.  It is needless to add that he was not again sent on a similar errand.”

The custom of obliging the Freshmen to run on errands for the Seniors was done away with at Dartmouth College, by the class of 1797, at the close of their Freshman year, when, having served their own time out, they presented a petition to the Trustees to have it abolished.

In the old laws of Middlebury College are the two following regulations in regard to Freshmen, which seem to breathe the same spirit as those cited above.  “Every Freshman shall be obliged to do any proper errand or message for the Authority of the College.”  —­“It shall be the duty of the Senior Class to inspect the manners of the Freshman Class, and to instruct them in the customs of the College, and in that graceful and decent behavior toward superiors, which politeness and a just and reasonable subordination require.”—­Laws, 1804, pp. 6, 7.

FRESHMANSHIP.  The state of a Freshman.

A man who had been my fellow-pupil with him from the beginning of our Freshmanship, would meet him there.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 150.

FRESHMAN’S LANDMARK.  At Cambridge, Eng., King’s College Chapel is thus designated.  “This stupendous edifice may be seen for several miles on the London road, and indeed from most parts of the adjacent country.”—­Grad. ad Cantab.

FRESHMAN, TUTOR’S.  In Harvard College, the Freshman who occupies a room under a Tutor.  He is required to do the errands of the Tutor which relate to College, and in return has a high choice of rooms in his Sophomore year.