"Dr. WHEELOCK has been to Connecticut and got home again. . . . The scholars were a little rogueish while he was absent - and so he and the Tutors have been about weeding the College this two or 3 days. . . . Last evening they plucked up a tall May Pole; or in plain English they expelled Wm. May from the College. Bodies politic must amputate their distempered limbs as well as bodies natural...."
Class of 1771