"16. No Freshman shall lean at prayrs but shall stand upright.
"17. No Freshman shall call his classmate by the name of Freshmen.
"18. No Freshman shall call up or down to or from his Seniors chamber or his own.
"19. No Freshman shall call or throw anything across the College yard.
"20. No Freshman shall mingo against the College wall, nor go into the Fellows cus john.[30]
"21. Freshmen may ware there hats at dinner and supper, except when they go to receive there Commons of bread and bear.
"22. Freshmen are so to carry themselves to there Seniors in all respects so as to be in no wise saucy to them, and who soever of the Freshmen shall brake any of these customs shall be severely punished."
Another manuscript copy of these singular regulations bears date
September, 1741, and is entitled,
"THE CUSTOMS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, WHICH IF THE FRESHMEN DON'T OBSERVE AND OBEY, THEY SHALL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED IF THEY HAVE HEARD THEM READ."
"1. No Freshman shall wear his hat in the College yard, except it rains, hails, or snows, he be on horseback, or hath both hands full.