four o'clock
The nocturnal bill-posters had shown themselves no respecters of places , for the placards adorned not fences and walls alone , but were pasted on the granite steps of each recitation hall . All the forenoon groups of staid seniors , grinning juniors and sophomores , or vexed freshmen stood in front of the placards and read the inscriptions with varied emotions . But in the afternoon a cheering mob of the `` infants '' marched through the college and town and tore down or effaced every poster they could find . But they did n't get as far from the campus as the athletic field , and so it was not until Neil and Paul and one or two other freshmen reported for practise at four o'clock that it was discovered that the high board fence surrounding the field was a mass of the objectionable signs from end to end . `` Oh , let them stay , '' said Neil . `` I think they 're rather funny myself . And as for their stopping the freshman dinner , why we 'll wait and see .