“Don’t wear knickerbockers with cap and gown, nor carry a stick or umbrella. These are stock eccentricities of Fresherdom.” (The genuine Cambridge student would rather be soaked to his skin and risk pneumonia, than encounter the derisive grin which an umbrella would evoke.)
“Don’t aspire to seniority by smashing your cap or tearing your gown, as you deceive no one.”
“Don’t be a tuft-head. The style is more favoured by errand boys than gentlemen.”
“Don’t by any chance sport a tall hat in Cambridge. It will come to grief.”
Under other headings, the following injunctions may be selected:
“Don’t sport during your first month. You will only earn the undesirable appellation of ‘Smug.’”
“Don’t speak disrespectfully of a man ‘Who only got a third in his Trip., and so can’t be very good.’ Before you go down your opinion will be ‘That a man must be rather good to take the Trip. at all.’”
“Don’t mistake a Don for a Gyp. The Gyp is the smarter individual.”
“Don’t forget that St. Peter’s College is ‘Pot-House,’ Caius is ‘Keys,’ St. Catherine’s is ‘Cats,’ Magdalene is ‘Maudlen,’ St. John’s College Boat Club is ‘Lady Margaret,’ and a science man is taking ‘Stinks.’”
“Don’t forget that Cambridge men ‘keep’ and not ‘live.’”