Trinity College (CT)

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Undergraduate life was arduous during the College's early history: students arose for prayers at 6 a.m. (5:30 during the summer semester), and classes began at 6:30. Because most students entered the College at age fifteen or sixteen, the faculty attempted strictly to regulate their behavior. Students were forbidden to gamble, to drink intoxicating beverages, to throw objects from the windows of College buildings, to engage in any sort of merrymaking without faculty permission, and so forth. One regulation prohibited students from keeping a sword in their rooms--a reflection, perhaps, of the fact that the pre-Civil War student body included many "chivalrous" young men from the Southern states. Of course, the regulations were not always scrupulously observed, and the historian of Trinity, Professor Emeritus Glenn Weaver, has found several instances of riotous student behavior. On one occasion in the late 1820s, the students barricaded themselves within the College, forcing President Brownell to batter down the door with a fence post. A favorite end-of-semester practice was to conduct a ritual burning of the textbook used in some required course which students had found especially onerous. (The course in "Conic Sections" was often singled out for this treatment.)

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