Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . College Servants, 1881 Memories of Brown 341 Devolution of the Bonfire. one important particular bonfires present adirect antithesis to poets, for bonfires arealways made. We have, of course, all heardsuggestions of spontaneous combustion, butthey invariably emanated from the brains ofstudents, and these generally not the moststudious of the class. These theories never received thesanction of the college authorities. It is a far call from the bonfire of old, which, whateverits raison detre, was not without a certain r
Memories of Brown; traditions and recollections gathered from many sources . College Servants, 1881 Memories of Brown 341 Devolution of the Bonfire. one important particular bonfires present adirect antithesis to poets, for bonfires arealways made. We have, of course, all heardsuggestions of spontaneous combustion, butthey invariably emanated from the brains ofstudents, and these generally not the moststudious of the class. These theories never received thesanction of the college authorities. It is a far call from the bonfire of old, which, whateverits raison detre, was not without a certain rude, barbaricdignity, as well as a spice of danger to its originators, tothe emasculated, specially permitted fire of today. Thelatter, indeed, is only a travesty on the original, and givesdelight to none. As it was our privilege to see the bonfire at the heightof its glory, when proved participation spelled expulsion,it is now our pleasure to trace its gradual devolution, andto show how, at one time, the students, at another, theauthorities, have been found arrayed upon the side oflaw and order, and the conservation of property. In the olden
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