His father thought that the indignity
caused his death. Another was taken out from his room in
his night clothes, tied into a chair and left on the public
commons in the cold. It was a long time before he was discovered
and rescued. A heavy cold and a fit of sickness were the consequence.
There was an entertaining custom of giving out what were called
mock parts when the real parts for the exhibitions or Commencement
were announced. They were read out from a second-story window
to an assemblage of students in the yard, and after the real
parts had been given some mock parts were read. Usually some
peculiarity of the person to whom they were assigned was made
the object of good-natured ridicule in the selection of the
subject. For example, one boy, who was rather famous for
smoking other fellows' cigars and never having any of his
own, had assigned to him as a subject, "The Friendships of
this Life all Smoke."
When the parts were assigned for the Commencement, which
were given usually to the first half of the class, there was a
procession of what was called the Navy Club and an assignment
of honors which were in the reverse order of excellence to
that observed in the regular parts.
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