"Hazing."

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4874, 23 August 1884, Page 1

"Hazing."

■..-;■■ ■■/'■'■■ ■-■;:-^^ , ( . »■'"'-' ' '■'*:■ V ■'■•.'•'{'{■■■ ."■■■-■ HOW IT WAS ; 'pBUBHBp/;oiTT':iT};Pj|ll^;ciß«;.'; : .; ;••■■.;.■;_■; '--'■: town. . ~':'\::7''-.-^'>'''l^:i'y Everyone knows of the trick tliat■■''was played some two years ago by a freßhmati at Princetown college, at which time the custom of "baking", in a ;really brutal manner was so,prevalent there. The hazing gang of sophomoresthat year-were so rough and cruel thafcthe faculty was at its wit's end to devise some means for its suppression. One "or two, cases of severe and lasting bodily injuries, t0.,, the victims placed so serious an aspect upon matters, that applicants for scholarship, were^fewi At this juncture the father of a rieV man? who- had incurred the enmity "of the hazers by< stubbornly resisting their attacks, conceived an ingenious idea," He quietly hunted up Sullivan^took him to Princefcown, bad a conference with the president of the college, and the same day .-.. the champion, who bore the appearance of a meek looking young man with eyeglasses and a bad cough, was entered as a student and assigned'a* room in' the dormitory. That night about twenty of the " Wahoos," as the hazers called themselves, stole softly to the new member's room. Having .arranged .their V:ear twisters^' "toe pinchers "and other instruments ofr torture to their satisfaction, they took off their coats, rolled up their sleeves, "and tapped gently on the door of their victim, who mildly invited them in> ■'■. The invaders lit the gas, and beheld the new" comer lying-in bed, smoking a „ cigarette, and benignly regarding the mob through Ms goggles. i ♦ '--.:-i-y-. " Get op there, Freshie. We'ye2going to have some fun with you," they said.I "Not really?" said the victim, with a hollow cough. . ■* .*., ; " Yes; look spry now!" / , ; ; " Well, if I roust, I suppole I must," whimpered the new man, jumping out on the floor. The next moment-the ringleader of the: inquisitors; got/a " facer " that drove him clear across the.room and through the sash of a window.: :. The survivors tf what followed all agree that language entirely fails to do justice to the scene; Sullivan kicked the door shut, and then, sailed in and began piling up the dead. Some of them didn't get-round again for three Weeks, and half-a-dozen badly flattened ',' Sullivan " noses' can. be seen itx this.'"• yew's class. v '.;. /; :, \ t -;^./v '■::?'.'■'.''':.."[ "v'c; "':'':Y:\. / This is the story most of our readers have beard. The result was to entirely abolish ", hazing " at Princetown,until the beginning of the present session, wheu the old custom started with renewed vigour. .' ;- ■.■■" ■' -. ■/■■/;' '■'\A''.:--'. y y.-:. » A student named ilarrison^from Cleveland, learned that his "den -was to:be \ . raided on a certain nighty That day ; he repaired to,the outskirts of the towu, and by means of a cabbagei decoyed to his room,>under cover of .darkness, a peculiarly vigorous and vindictive billy goat, the terror of that quarten He kept the animal in a pacific frame of mind by much provender until the hour for the assault. When the freshman heard tW) stealthy gathering of the clans outside the door, he 'turned off the gas, ■ gave the goat a few gabs with a penknife : to liven it up, and dodged behind: the door. „ ; .. ,:• .• ■ ,:. '•'••'■• ..,■«'■;.■"' .'.".■■ ■••■'"..-.■ •'■ :' As soon as the beseigers had rushed in he shut the door, locked it, arid hastily climbed.upon the wardrobe, being just in' time\,td escape ( the first rush of the billy, who knocked three mefa pyei; tHe|bed.the - very.first^iff;:"; ; '/—':" c ■ ■'.. ;^.;'';-"^.'Av^:"'-/ ■■" : T-v ,'"; The pandemonium* of shrieks,'.'fcurs'es",',,' : and butts lasted, for' some five minutes. Then a forlorn hope of battered hazers .managed to grope their way to' the; door {; and tear it open.^ As t;hey ; tumbled put into the now crowded hall half a hnridted." excited, voices asked what the matterA ; waß.':.; ■;-. ." ■■ .• ;:•■., '■■;. '•' Av'-c'-'i '■■"■;\-'---\;:^/':'.'- 1-";' v • "Matter?" gasped one of the .worst: used up of the gang. :?" Why; they've j rung,- that d ' >'d Sullivan in -on us": : again;l"--:;; :x.-;,"::v- 'v: ■ !'■ ■■::''-'.'