The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-09-21
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HOW HAZING WAS STOPPED.
Sullivan's Appearance as a Quaker at
Harvard College.

Many have wondered why there ha.
not been any hazing at Harvard fol
the past three months. In all thai
time there has not been case of haz-
ing reported, and some have come tc
the conclusion that the hazers have
met with a change Of heart. It is mol
exactly change of heart, but {
change of clothes that ails them. We
are Informed that the hazing has beer
effectually broken up. Just after
Sullivan whipped Ryan, he was called
to Harvard, and a plan of breaking ur
hazing was unfolded to him by the
Faculty, and he fell into it readily
He was to attire himself as a Quake,
young man, and apply for admission
as Freshman, and let nature take it's
course. On the 1st day of April Mr.
Sullivan appeared at the college under
the name of Abija Watson, and was
assigned to room, and placed on the
roll Of Freshmen. His appearance
was commented on, and as he passed
through the college grounds with his
peculiar garb, young fellows shouted,
'sShoot the hat, Get on to his nibs,' y
and other collegiate literature. 1t was
all Mr.. Sullivan could do to restrain
himself from whipping a couple of
dozen Of the boys then and there, but
he decided to wait until the proper
time, when he would be able to get
enough for mess. That evening he
was approached by young man who
pretended to be his friend, and invited
him to room where few boys were
going to open few bottles of wine.
Abba said verify he didn't go much
on the sinful beverage, but to oblige
his friend he went with him to large
room where seventy smart young fel-
lows were congregated with all the
appliances for hazing. Sullivan says
there were seventy, but the faculty
found sixty-five smart. Alecks when
the door was opened, but Sullivan
thinks few may have jumped out of
the window and taken to the woods.
1t, seems that when they got the
Quaker" into the room they locked
the door, and the ringleader told the
peaceful man to strip off his coat, vest
and shirt. He objected, but finally
took them off.
Some of the fellows who have since
got out of the hospital say they no.
ticed, when he removed his shirt
that he was put up like hired man,
and they thought it queer that a
Quaker should have an arm like can
vassed ham. They then told him to
''prepare to meet his God," and got
out the iron to brand him on the
back. He told them that he knew he
was in their power, and was willing
to submit to anything that was right,
but he asked as favor not to bear on
too hard, as he was of nervous tenn
permanent, and might faint Then
they decided not to brand him until
later, but would throw him up in a
blanket first. So they got the blanket
and tipped Sullivan over in it, and
about twenty of the smartest hazers
took hold Of the sides and tossed him
up. When he came down he knocked
four fellows senseless with his fists,
kicked four more across the room,
and then got on his feet and began to
knock them right and left. He had
knocked down about twenty, and had
stopped to spit On his hands, when
the rest of the hazers huddled in a
corner and proposed to put an end to
the slaughter. One said: ''Oh, good
Mr.. Quaker, please let us alone. We
belong to respectable families and
won't do so any more. Sullivan looked
at them and said: ut is hazing ye
want. Well yez can have plinty,'
and he went at them, and in fifteen
minutes he corded up the whole gang,
and hazing was broken up in Harvard
College. As he threw his coat and
shirt across his arm and walked out OF
the room, and met the Faculty in the
hall, he said: "Throw water in THEN
faces and they will all regain con-
sciousness in from ten minutes tc
half an hour" and he shook hands
with the Faculty, received his $500
and left for New York with his
trainer, Billy Madden, who was sit.
ting on the fence outside waiting fol
him.
"Fot kind of a time did yez have
wild de b'ys?" asked Mr.. Madden, as
he helped Mr.. Sullivan on with hi:
shirt, and changed the Quaker hat fol
another.
"Verily, friend William" said Qua
ker Sullivan, as he counted the roll Of
bills, to see that the Faculty had no
showed any counterfeits on him, I'll
was evint Of the season. 1t is gooo
exercise" And they started for Cor
nell University, at Ithaca.