Comments on: A Few Useful Rules For Students http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1328 Bruce Garrett's Weblog. Essays and musings on my life and my world. Wed, 16 May 2012 22:55:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Bruce http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1328/comment-page-1#comment-65063 Bruce Tue, 20 May 2008 15:33:53 +0000 http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1328#comment-65063 <p>I'm trying to picture the context of that rule and what comes to mind is that where the schoolhouse was within sight of a creek, or one was near the footpath to the school, some of the boys may have liked showing off for the girls on the pretext of just having themselves a nice swim on a hot day.  The gay boys back then would have, of course, not cared whether the swimming spot was close to the school or not since there would have been no prohibition on boys swimming together.<br /> </p> <p>The really scary one was the prohibition on bringing hawk's claws to school.  A rule like that doesn't come out of nowhere. </p> I’m trying to picture the context of that rule and what comes to mind is that where the schoolhouse was within sight of a creek, or one was near the footpath to the school, some of the boys may have liked showing off for the girls on the pretext of just having themselves a nice swim on a hot day.  The gay boys back then would have, of course, not cared whether the swimming spot was close to the school or not since there would have been no prohibition on boys swimming together.

The really scary one was the prohibition on bringing hawk’s claws to school.  A rule like that doesn’t come out of nowhere. 

]]> By: Jarred http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1328/comment-page-1#comment-65061 Jarred Tue, 20 May 2008 15:17:59 +0000 http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1328#comment-65061 <em>You shall not go swimming naked within 200 yards of the schoolhouse. </em> Can we infer from this that swimming naked 250 yards away was a-okay, then?    You shall not go swimming naked within 200 yards of the schoolhouse.
Can we infer from this that swimming naked 250 yards away was a-okay, then?   

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