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210 were permitted to converse with a visitor in his own language. It would be pleasant to hear, at a training-table, now, for instance, modest conversation either in Latin or French. Harriers, hounds, hawks, and other such alliterative animals, were not to be kept in the Hall or its precincts, by any of the undergraduates. All sorts of "games of dice, chess, and others, giving opportunity of losing money, were prohibited, especially dice and other similar games, which gave occasion for strife, and often beggary to the player." And, above all, the use of musical instruments was forbidden within the College, except during the hours of general refreshment; such being likely to produce levity and insolence, and to afford occasion for distraction from study. This, naturally, did not apply to the musical instruments employed in the chapel service, to the shooting of pistols out of the windows on the occasion of a foot-ball victory, to the blowing of horns and the firing of cannon-crackers on the occasion of a circus-parade, or to the banjo and the mandolin on the Campus, during Commencement Week, as is the present custom in American colleges: but it seems to have been pretty hard on the students, who are generally so peculiarly gifted in vocal and in instrumental ways.

We are told that the Provost, Fellows, and