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A GREATER WORK fessors, and forming "combinations" to resist faculty authority; (2) unnecessary noise in and near College buildings; (3) smoking, except in one's room; (4) using intoxicating liquor as a beverage or unnecessarily visiting a place were it was sold; and (5) playing ball inside College buildings or throwing anything which could damage College property.166 The rules and regulations had long contained the statement that an accurate account of the delinquencies, conduct, and attendance of every student, and of the degree of his attainment in scholarship, shall be kept in a book prepared for the purpose; in it shall be entered his merit and demerit, so as to present his standing. A copy of this account shall be transmitted to every parent or guardian. In 1872 the faculty further systematized this phase of its work by assigning each student a conduct grade of one hundred at the beginning of a term and then deducting points assessed for "disorderly conduct and misdemeanors." Demerits, as they were called, ranged from one for a "single misdemeanor or case of disorderly behavior or violation of the rules" to ten for an unexcused absence from church. The faculty were empowered to levy appropriate penalties for all those offenses not specified in the rules.167 Incorporating a number of changes made during the intervening thirty years, this system remained in effect in 1904. Students with twenty-five demerits were warned and parents were notified. Those with fifty were subject to suspension. In all good faith, Luther H. Croll might tell the students of 1884 that the faculty had no higher wish than to make them happy. He might counsel them "against the wicked spirit which would free itself from all wholesome control." But he was speaking more realistically when he admitted that teachers are "commonly regarded as petty tyrants, as the abridgers of youthful pleasures, as unfeeling, little-minded, arbitrary pedants, who delight in imposing unreasonable burdens, and in inflicting undeserved punishment."168 166A glance at the 1865 regulations shows that a number of earlier prohibitions had now disappeared, including riding on a horse or in a vehicle on Sunday, attending a political celebration, and going to a ball or theatrical exhibition. Most versions of the regulations gave the faculty authority to deal with matters of conduct not otherwise provided for. 167The proposed faculty rule in June 1872 called for the automatic suspension of any student whose conduct grade fell below fifty. Possibly in part because of the hard times and the low enrollment, the trustees decided that such a course of action "would not be prudent," and it was abandoned. 168CoIIege Monthly (October 1884), pp. 223-224. The Spectrum (1901), p. 212, identified the officers of the Gettysburg Secret Service Department: Old Sleuth McKnight was chief, Hawkeye Phil Bikle was trailer, and Sure Shot Traub, the proctor, was informer. The rest of the faculty were dubbed assistants. 32