The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1878-03-07
HEARD FROM.

Last week we spoke Of the fools at
colleges, including those ct the Ohio
University, at Athens. The "hazing' re.
Gently perpetrate@ at shst Institution
consisted in ios Of these gentlemen
and scholars" s.cal.-y into jte - of
another student ana siling his little
stock of furniture in the middle of the
room, patti hi % lott. ciCthing,
towels. &c. upon thu rile. tbs curing
upon them 10 Ga -.cZ his lamp, and
stealn1 bis matches.
1t seems that our little plain truth
about the matter last week has touched
up these fools, and one Of them has sent
us postal card. ith the following writ
ten upon it:
20. U. Feb. 2s. 1878.
Sir The fools" of the o. U. present
their compliments ct respectfully repre-
sent that they have no use for either Joe
Geiger's lecture or the sympathy of
your royal higanes- -
O'sFSn' <, Y. z"
We do not know how many fools there
versity; we hope not many such hopeless
cases as the coward who sent the above,
and was afraid to sign his real name. We
believe him when he says he has no use
for Geiger's lecture or our sympathy; for
he is evidently one Of those fools referred
to by Solomon, whose foolishness would
not depart from him though he should
be brayed in a mortar with a pestle, like
wheat.
We will send this fools card to DR..
Scott, President of the University so
that his (the fools) writing can be recog-
nized, and we recommend DR.. Scott to
deliver his lecture on Manhood" to
those students who are not fools. Those
who "haze" by breaking into rooms to
commit trespass, should be sent to the
Penitentiary, or across the creek to the
big institution on the hill. according TO
the amount of their mental capacity, or
responsibility for their crimes. While
such fools or criminals are tolerated al
Athens and Princeton, young men OF
sense will be likely to seek some other
means of education.
We will close with a short article
upon "haziDg" from the New York Oh
server:
"The barbarous scenes which have
been enacted in many colleges, and
which go under the name of hazing
would be disgrace to the inhabitants o
the the Five Points of New York in the
worst days Of this locality; but enacted
as they are by those who aspire to be
called educated gentlemen, they are faI
more disgraceful 1t is high time that
the civil authorities took the matter in
hand and dealt with the perpetrators as
with less enlightend rowdies. Whatever
efforts the college authorities may make
to suppress such occurrences, they will
not cease until the officers of the law
treat them as ofenses against the laws oi
the land, promptly arresting and punish
ing the offenders as other criminals are
punished.
There is one phase of the subject
which is painful mystery. In almost
every such occurrence among those en-
gagged in the acts of violence or in their
subsequent justification by united class
action, there are many who profess to b.
Christian men, followers Of Christ, who
yet follow the multitude to do evil
What becomes Of their Christian charac
ter when they deliberately commit vio
lence upon the persons of their fellow
men, or when they band themselves not
merely to conceal those who are guilty
of the assaults. but to uphold and justify
them in their iniquity We know not
on what occult principles of Christian
cqsuistry such companionship witt evil
men and such partnership in doing evil
can be defended"