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A GREATER GETTYSBURG fall of 1910, when the Student Council began operating and was assigned the unpleasant task of dealing with fellow-students accused of hazing. One way in which it did so was to commission a number of sophomores to haze freshmen in ways which would not likely incur the wrath of the faculty. The names of the members of the Sophomore Band, who functioned with masks, were known only to the Student Council. Although not all freshmen or impartial observers would agree with the assessment, the Gettysburgian on March 18, 1914 concluded that this body had done its work responsibly and well.368 The faculty was always less interested in finding mutually acceptable ways of enforcing freshmen customs than it was in stamping out hazing in all of its forms. In October 1913 President Granville, returning to a theme which he had developed before the students on previous occasions, told a mass meeting that as many as twenty-five prospective freshmen were refusing to come to Gettysburg and that several men were refusing to pay their pledges to the endowment fund until hazing was abandoned. By an almost unanimous vote the students agreed to renounce the practice and abolish the Sophomore Band. A week later, pronouncing this action "one of the greatest steps forward ever taken at this institution," the faculty passed a resolution "forbidding all forms of hazing in Pennsylvania College." Responding to a request for an explanation of what it meant by hazing, in December the faculty informed the members of the Student Council that it adhered to a standard dictionary definition: "severe practical joking involving physical personal injury and bodily harm, or the performance of any humiliating action entailing surrender of dignity and self respect under fear or threat of force." Later, it clarified one point by declaring that requiring freshmen to wear a prescribed cap was not hazing. Finally, the faculty included a new sentence in the 1914 catalogue: "hazing in any form is forbidden." In the spring of 1914 the Student Council proposed, and the faculty approved, a Board of Surveillance to replace the Sophomore Band. Its members were to be juniors; they were forbidden to use corporal punishment; and they were to be masked, with identities known only to the Student Council. In its issue of May 20, the Gettysburgian professed to believe that, at long last, the problem had been solved. What it called discipline would replace hazing. "Under the old system," the reader was told, "the merciless Soph did the work; under the new plan the brotherly Junior will guide the erring Freshmen into the straight and narrow path." As the events of 1914-1915 were to demonstrate, the problem was 368Members of the Sophomore Band were pictured in the Spectrum from 1912 through 1918. 67