... 18. No Freshman shall call or throw anything across the College yard, nor go into the Fellows’ Cuz-John."Mingo" is a piece of street slang that passed out of usage long ago, and while rule #20 no longer holds at Harvard, it is alive and well in our nation's military academies.
19. No Freshman shall mingo against the College walls.
20. Freshmen are to carry themselves, in all respects, as to be in no wise saucy to their Seniors.
21. Whatsoever Freshman shall break any of these customs, he shall be severely punished.
The remaining rules can be seen on Bell's blog, or in the book that I believe Bell says it originally came from, John Patrick Diggins' biography of John Adams
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Sorry, those rules don't come from Diggins's biography. I just used that as a touchstone.
Rather, those rules appear in several books about Harvard at least as far back as 1856.
Thanks for the clarification, J.L. Do you have the title?
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