knitmeapony:

knitmeapony:

Some excellent content for several fandoms. And just history nerds. https://twitter.com/calluna_/status/1020031158455848960?s=19

Captions (finally): Fourteen tweets from Jenny Bann @calluna_

• I transcribed a collection of 18thC student disciplinary records once.  Let me give a quick overview of the things that generation were doing…
• Duelling with swords; getting loudly and raucously drunk and kicked out of taverns; going along to a dancing master’s classes to meet girls, being told not to dance with one of said girls, getting into a fight with the dancing master over it;
• Making ‘obscene toasts’ when drunk; hassling the landlady’s daughter when drunk; taking  a sedan chair home when drunk and trashing it (Glasgow sedan chairs could be hired like taxis in 18thC, there were even designated sedan-chair pickup ranks)
• Getting drunk and damaging somebody else’s lodgings to the point where he was “expelled from his Habitation and deprived of his Body Cloaths and the poor Remainder of his furniture to Satisfy the Landlord for his Rent”;
• “having too many Companions always in his room, disturbing the house wt noise & breaking the furniture, as an evidence of which the Chairs in his room have no lefs than three times broke […] the expense whereof he promised to pay but has never yet fulfilled his promise”
• Not attending lectures, and claiming when told off for this that ther was a university regulation saying students on his particular bursary only needed to attend 1/3 to pass, leading to two professors combing through rules ofr nonexistant regulation,
• Arguing at the university debating society that the university is a “dusty shop of logic and metaphysic” and students would be better off just going to the theater
• Suggesting to the ex-military chemistry lecturer that the army only wear red because they are trying to make up for their lack of virility ; getting into a fight with said chemistry lecturer in the university quad that two academic staff had to wade into a d break up;
• (the last three were all the same student; he eventually got expelled and went off to seek his fortune with the East India Company)
• Something that was bad enough to get two students expelled but is only described (by them) as “having the Misfortune sometime agoe to fall into an unhappy afray with some People of teh Town”;
• Trapping a servant girl in their rooms and scaring her; damaging their lodgings again, this time by “some indecent language being painted on the inside of the room door wt a brush & whitening”
• Getting drunk and arguing with a lecturer, deciding later that he needed to be taught a lesson, marching out drunkenly into the night with the tavern fireplace poker, beating an innocent passer-by w/it until the Lord Provost arrived to wrench said poker out of student’s hand
• A significant proportion of these students were planning to go into the Church, btw.
• So while I agree it’s annoying when your undergrads don’t do the reading and plagiarize their essays from SparkNotes, I struggle to believe they’re the Worst Student Generation Ever.