Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-01-31

HAzING a NEBHoNTEE.-Appropos of tho
melee at the Amherst Agricultural College
the New York ErHng Post SAYS that some
years ago, in another New England college, &
long. lank Vermont boy was set upon by Z
party of students. who considered him - yer
dant.' They crowded him in tight cornel
on the staircase. and hustled him severely
till he finally broke out with the exclama-
ton - What in thunder are We ADDING
OFF, and proceeded to drop first one and
then a second and third of his assailant,
down the well-hole of the stairs, and So dis
playing his superior strength and his reck-
lessness of possible injury to human bones
walked quietly away, and was no more no
Tested.
The Editor Of the jersey City Journal, Z.
X. Pangborn, Esq, is reminded by the Am
herst fracas, of a transaction in the Uniyer-
sity Of Vt lie SAYS:
We never had any personal experience Of
"hazing'' or being hazel. When We were a
Freshman, it happened that our class took the
matter in hand as a class, and by a well planned
and successfully executed engagement, whipped
the entire Sophomore class together SO thorough
ly that they never venture,l to make any subse-
quent assault on any individual Of our number
We remember that little affair although it is more
than twenty years ago with feeling Of genuine
satisfaction
To which Mr. Clark of the Rutland Her
aid adds
We have some pleasing remembrances, Broth
er Pangborn, Of the incident you mention.
A DESERVED REBrKE. - The Round T'a5le,
in an article on 81 Taste in Journalism - has
these well deserved structures in the practice.
introduced by the Home Journal, Of publish
ing engagements, and other private matters
hitherto held sacred
" Another feature has lately been thrust
upon public attention, more particularly bv
portion Of the metropolitan press, that scarce
" calls for qualified treatment. We refer 10
the indecent publication Of personal details.
the unscrupulous revelation Of scenes and in
cidents of private life by which certain Jour
mails have sought to force themselves into no
toriety and circulation. 1t Is pitiaLle to add
that Il paper, once Of decent, if of somewhat
weak and frivolous character, has been in
this respect a leading offender. Whatever
may have been said or thought Of the de
ceased founder Of this Journal. he was at
least a gentleman-a man who thoroughly
knew the c0RUendRoes of life-and the degen-
eacy Of his paper into a sort of flash organ
Of pinchbeck society, must be extremely dis
tressing to his surviving friends But it is
something worse.
1t is an insult to the good sense and the good
feeling of the community that such nause-
Gus twaddle shonld be spread each week he |
fore it in print which depends upon former |
responsibility to gain admittance into decent
families. Weare quite aware that society has |
changed somewhat Of late year, in New
York We are quite ready 10 believe that
there may be some scores Of uneducated gig
Cling girls, and feeble snobs of young men,
whose fathers have made money in haste
to spend it in folly, and who may be tickled
to see in print descriptions Of their gowns
and waistcoats, their dancings and iunket-
ings, their Germans and firtations, and
their ineffable puerile conversation. But is
this the kind of stuff to print in a paper
claiming TO he respectable, in a sensible and
educated community? We cannot conceive
If father Of average sense and feeling,
whatever his culture. seeing such things as
We have lately seen published about hun
lred young women of this city, without find
ne his fingers itching to get hold Of horse |
Whip and we have certainly been very ]
much surprised that no such inclination has
: vet developed into practical form.