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A SALUTARY INFLUENCE The Sophomore Band, 1916-1917 remained undiminished. In the spring of 1923 the Student Council asked faculty approval of the Tribunal, which would be an agency of the council in trying those students charged with violating customs and in carrying out sentences imposed upon those found guilty, during daylight hours and by persons without masks. The faculty reacted gingerly to this request. It accepted the recommendation of its discipline committee that the plan "be not forbidden" and that it be initiated "on trial." The professors reserved the right "to discontinue their acquiescence" upon due notice to the Student Council. The Tribunal, consisting of two seniors, three juniors, and four sophomores, began functioning in September 1923. Its trials usually occurred on Thursday evenings and the sentences were carried out about noon on Friday on the south steps of Pennsylvania Hall. Penalties ranged from having to wear a sign calling attention to one's particular transgression to enduring a thoroughly unprofessional haircut. Few students protested this arrangement, in part because few who opposed it and kept to themselves became involved in it. Two letters appearing in the Gettysburgian in November 1932 illustrate the degree to which ideas of a quarter century earlier were still firmly held by the opponents and supporters of freshman discipline. The first characterized most customs, and the 67