"This year the annual fight between the Freshmen and Sophomores took the nature of a flag-pole rush. According to elaborately drawn rules, the Sophomores placed their green colors on the telegraph pole erected on the campus and undertook to guard them from the Freshmen. The length of the fight was twenty minutes, and for that length of time the Sophomores were able to defend the green. The same night the two classes united in a party at the gymnasium and thus ended all hostilities."
(pdf page 98)