Litchfield enquirer., 1873-12-18

'AAZING AT NASSAR COLLEGE. .-.AeE no one be alarmed, for '.hazing" among the youg women at Vassar College is not what it is among their rougher brothers
 at Princeton, Yale or Harvard. "Haz- l ing" exists at Vassar, that is, the soph-
 omores formally celebrate the advent of Q new brood of freshwomen, but the cer- emony is mild, innocuous, and we should | suppose, agreeable. In word, the sophomores receive their younger sisters with flowers, music and dancing, and that is ''hazing" at Vassar. -a Cl -.-. A private letter from a member of the present sophomore class contains an out line account of the recent observance of this ceremony for the current school year. | When this custom of giving welcome to
 'the new corners" began, the letter says, literary entertainment was given, but | now the times are changed, and Q recep. | tion, with dancing, is the order of the l day. Thic change was made because all I the other college festivals are more or less literary in their character; and also because an evening passed in social inter- course affords the best possible chance of | getting cquainted-''to begin the knit ting" as Q woman ought to say, "of that strong friendship which should unite the classes of college. In this kind of feel ing we are certainly more truly brotherly than some of our not very distant broth ers'
 She continues as follows: ''The gym nasium made splendid dancing hall and with its stage built and fitted up as Q so- cial place for pictures and games, it's chandeli hung with greens, to say noth- ing of the punch-bowls of lemonade tt each end, and the evergreen ''Salve '77l" over the mirror at the further end, we felt that this was to be good time and that we were in it. The ushers were dressed in black silks with white silk neckties and very gentLena0nly little but ton-hole bOquets tied with white ribbons and fastened with society pins in the place where the button-hole ought to have been. The president of the sopho. mores received the guests, and the danc- ing began at once. As soon as the soph- omore president could leave her place she led off in quadrille with the president of the Fresh. Light refreshments were served in Society Hall from until o'clock. The connecting passage-way was very tastefully decorated. The little caps and aprons of the waitresses were very becoming.
 The new. class at vassar consists of eighty, and the sophomores number fifty, so that 1n all one nunded ana thirty young women were engaged in thisRpretty festi val We are told that they were ''all very prettily dressed, ''but of course where there were so many girls and no men it would be a mere waste of the natural acuteness of woman in criticising dress to say otherwise. The faculty of the Col lege wisely limit the cost of these enter tainments, so that there may be no inju- will hoo hot f'hazing" at Vassar Colleoe is something to which even young man might be made to submit, and that, too, without writing to his father to "see lawyer" about it. n Ie .e.,- ..eo-re
 Medieval commentators of the Bible, says Bishop Ferrete, -areo astonishing to us modern men. There, is this to be said on their behalf, that they knew neither