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 ST. JOHN'S was founded, in the middle of the Sixteenth Century, for " Divinity, Philosophy, and the Arts; and to the Praise and Honor of God, the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist."

Archbishop Laud, when St. John's was in its youth, must have had some slight foresight of at least one great outgrowth of modern football; for, in his orders to the heads of the college, he required them to prevent the students from wearing their hair immensely thick and luxuriant. "See that none, youth or other," he commanded, "be suffered to go in boots or spurs, or to wear their hair indecently long, or with the lock in the present fashion, or with slashed doublets, or in any light or garish colors; and that noblemen's sons may conform, as others do, during the time of their abode, which will teach them to know the difference of places, and other betimes; and when they grow up to be men it will make them look back upon the place with honor to it, and reputation to you [its tutors and teachers]."

If slashed Jerseys do not appear at St. John's now, as they sometimes do in American colleges, garish colors certainly prevail; and not all hair is cut short. 221