The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-11-04
Hazing at West Point and Annapolis,

Hazing at West Point and Annapolis.
There is hazing at the colleges, but
the sophomore class has not the facili.
ties for indulging in the pastime that
are possessed by third classmen at West
Point and Annapolis. The third class
is above the new conner, the "pleb' OIL
''youngster" and exercises a certain
sort of supervision over him. He is
made superintendent Of the fourth
class floor. As he has just come into
a little authority he delights to exer-
else it. The ''pleb'' is Spotted or
reported for everything. He is not
spoken to like a gentleman, but more
like dog. He has to put "sir" af-
ter every answer to an upper class
man. He must stand up and take off
his cap when one of these august and
important individuals enters his room.
He must stand and have his looks,
| figure and his name made fun Of by
perhaps a young stripping a foot
shorter than himself. The language
used is often insulting, but it is sell
dom that the pleb dares to resent it.
The hazer generally tries to be very
funny. If he happens to get off
something that approaches wit and
the youngster smiles he is then pitch
ed into for daring to laugh at an up
per classmate. This is the milder
form Of "hazing:" it is called run
ming" To most young men it is more
CALLING than "hazing" proper. The
latter affects the body, while the for
mer consists in slurs and personal
abuse. On drill the youngster is yell
ed at upon every opportunity by the
cadet officers, and sneering remaks are
made aloud at the manner in which he
conducts himself AS a general thing
none but the third class are supposed
to haze; but all three of the upper
classes compine to make the new
cadet as uncomfortable as possible.
There are different forms of hazing.
One that is always practiced more or
less every year is the 'shirt-tail pa
rade." After taps, when everybody is
to be in bed, few choice
spirits Of the third class go to the
floor where the plebs are in bed. They
turn them out make each one arm
himself with broom. Night clothes
are all that is worn. The plebs are
into companies, and under
the dim light in the corridor are drill
ed in all their phantom-like pictur-
The wardrobe in the ca
dets' rooms are very narrow; the
Youngsters are made to climb them
very quickly. Often the wardrobe
falls on them. At Annapolis sheet
is stretched across the wardrobes and
the two room-mates are made to go
through the evolutions of loosing,
reefng and furling sail. They get
dusty, and what is worse, are often
kept in their cramped positions on top
IF the wardrobe until their limbs
ache. They are made to get on the
5able, dance and sing; no matter
whether they can dance or sing they
have to go through the motions.
A favorite pastime for the festive
nazer is to make one youngster get in
the wardrobe to sing while another
acts as if he was turning the crank of
4 hand-organ. Whenever a new tune
S wanted the outside man taps ON the
wardrobe and the singer sings him an
other lay. The mattresses are taken
rom the beds in several rooms and
oiled up around few selections of
he genus plebo until the, hollow col
INN reaches near the ceiling. Into
;he top Of this water is poured upon
;he recumbent youngsters until the
lazers get tired. Sometimes, but not
,ften, a particularly cheeky young
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lie is shaved with blunt piece of tin,
common soap being used for lather,
md a whisp broom for brush. Ii a
gets to exhibiting too much
gall" and evinces a determination
lot to submit to his many persecu-
ions, he is taken into a dark room,
where some twenty or thirty upper
lassmen are assembled. The opera
ion of passing around" is then car
led out. This consists in one man
irving the rebellious pleb punch in
he ribs, knocking him to the next
nan on the right. He is carried
round the circle until he either gives
n or becomes exhausted. This treat
nent is known to bring even the most
heeky youngster to proper sense of
What is due by him to the upper class
nan. Frequently twenty or thirty
,lehs are gotten into room seated in
hairs. The most religious one that
AN be found is made to take the desk
md preach a sermon from text in
he Bible. His audience at proper in
ervals says Amen" He then calls
N brother for prayer" The pray
II has to be forthcoming. Young
nen are made to sit on their beds and
With broom pretend to row until ex-
lausted. Tying plebs up in sheets
md hanging them out of the windows
$ not as common now as it used to
De. Cases are frequent, however, of
;ying them in their beds on their
packs and leaving them there. Run
ling a piece of rope into the room
over the transom after taps and then
making it fast to the feet of the pleb
S common. The youngster is sud
lenIy awakened by feeling himself
lrawn out of bed. He is pulled up
by his feet to the transom and lower
ID again These are some of the many
ways that the pleb is made to feel
that he is to be obedient and servile
to his uppers.- Washington Star.
DERANGEMENT of the liver, with
injure the complexion,
induce pimples, sallow skin, etc. Re-
move the cause by using Carter's Lit
tie Liver Pills. One dose. oct.2S2w