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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE mitories. Exceptions to this rule, many of which were later granted, were considered privileges rather than rights, for which students could be charged $7.50 each semester.285 True to its promise, the faculty did try to protect the students' "moral integrity" by continuing to punish what it took to be "any infringement of good morals." Its efforts to deal with cheating have already been discussed; those involving hazing will be treated later in this section. Among the other infringements were intoxication; disorderly conduct in classroom, chapel, or dormitory; damaging or destroying property; gambling; and theft. Early in this period, it was the faculty as a body which dealt with these offenses, and the minutes were filled, as they had been since 1832, with the details. Once the Student Council began functioning in 1910, it assumed some of the burdens, but the faculty retained the right to review and the power to overrule its decisions. A regular standing discipline committee established in 1914 further relieved the full faculty. After 1920 about the only items relating to discipline which came before it were policy matters and cheating cases. As before, the faculty could penalize offenders by handing out demerits, taking away remaining cuts, suspending students for the period of time thought to be commensurate with the offense (it was a further and serious offense for a nonresident suspended student not to leave the community), and dropping or expelling a student. As before, the trustees supported the faculty in matters of discipline. Forgetting that in 1871 they had delegated the power to expel to the faculty, the trustees delegated it again in 1915. By arguing that the evidence on which they were found guilty was faulty, that the procedures used in their case were irregular, or that they were truly repentant, many students secured almost immediate repeal of their sentences. "About a dozen fellows were suspended last week," according to the Gettysburgian for December 11,1907. "They easily got matters arranged so that they were permitted to remain in college." Although both faculty and trustees often concerned themselves with standards of student conduct after 1914, the rules and regulations adopted in that year were the last in the long series of general legislation on the subject which had begun eighty years earlier. From this point on, the action taken was peacemeal and, although not all would agree, in the direction of fewer and simpler regulations. For example, in 1920 the faculty abandoned the demerit 285Until 1936, except briefly in a few cases, the College did not furnish dormitory rooms. The catalogue informed new students that no-longer-needed furniture was usually sold to the next occupant of a room and that the College engaged an independent appraiser to assist, if desired, in making the sale. A used furniture dealer near the campus sold to many students. 61