The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-09-07
HOW HAZING WAS STOPPED.
suIiivnn's Appearance n Quaker mt Har-
ward College.

Many have wondered why there has not been
any hazing at Harvard for the past three
months In all that time, there has not been Il
ease of haZing reported, and some have come to
the conclusion that the hazers have met with a
change of heart. 1t is not exactly a change of
heart, but a change of clothes that ails them. We
are informed that the hazng has been effectually
broken up. Just after Sullivan whipped Ryan,
he was called to Harvard, and a plan for break
ing up hazing was uufolded to him by the fac
ulty, and he fell into il readily. He was to at
tire himself rs Quaker young man, and apply
for admission as a freshman, and let nature take
its course. On the LIST day of April, Mr. Sulli-
van appeared at the college, under the name of
Abijah Watson, and was consigned to a room,
and placed on the roll of freshmen.
His appearance was commented on, and as he
passed through the college grounds with his
peculiar garh young fellows shouted, '.Shoot
the hat, Get on to his nibs,' and other col
legiate literature. II was all Mr. Sullivan could
do to restrain himself from whipping a couple
of dozen of the boys then and there, but he de-
cided TO wait until the proper time, when he
would be able to get enough for a mess. That
evening he was approached by young man
who pretended 10 be his friend, and invited to
accompany him to a room where n few of the
boys were going to open few bottles of wine.
Abijah said verify he didn't go much on the SIN
full beverage, but to oblige his friend, he went
with him To a large room, where seventy smart
young fellows were congrcgated, with all the
seventy. but the faculty only found sixty-fve
smart Alexis when the door was opened. but
Sullivan thinks a few may have jumped out of
the window, and took to the woods 1t seems
that when they got the Quaker into the room
they locked the door, and the ring leader told
the peaceful man to strip of 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 noticed, when he removed
his shirt, that he was put up like a hired man,
md fheN- hat On Ear shn
have an arm big as a canvaSsed ham. They
then told him to ''prepaTe to meet his God, and
got ont the iron to brand him on the back. He
told them that lie knew hc was IN their power,
and willing to submit Ia anything that was
right, but hr asked favor not to hear ON too
hard, rs h. WAS Of u nervous temperament, and
might faint. Then they decided not Ia brand
him until later. hut would throw him up in
blanket first. so they got the blanket, and
fiupe, Sullivan over in it, aud about twenty of
the Suartr>t haZeTS took hold Df the sides and
tossed him nj. When he came down, he knocked
four frllnGS Sru>rlrSs with his fists, kicked four
more across the room, and tE,n got on his ftrt
and began TO knock them right and left. He
had knocked down ahant twenty, and had
stopped {" spit "n his hands, when the rest Of
the aazrTs hHs!,licd in corner. and PROPOSED to
put a stop 10 the slaughter. One said:
.Oh, good Mr.. Quaker. please let us alone.
We belong to respectable families, and won't do
any more" Sullivan locked at them, and
said: 1T is haziHg yez want! Well, yez can
have plinty, "and he went at them, and in about
fifteen inmates he corded up the whole gang,
and haziug was broken mp in Harvard College.
As he threw his coat and shirt across his arm
and walked ont of the room, and met the facn-
~ in the hall, lac said: Throw water III their
faces and they viii regain consciousness in from
ten minutes to half an hour," and he shook
hands with the faculty, received his $500 and
left for New York with his trainer, Billy Mad
den. who was sitting on the fence outside, wait
ing for him.
''FOt kind of time did yea have wild de
b'ys (" asked Mr.. Madden, as he helped Mr.. Sui
livan on with his shirt, and changed the Quaker
hat for another.
'Verily, friend William" said Quaker Sull-
van. as he counted the roll OF bills to see that
the faculty had not showed any counterfeits on
him, at was the evint of the sayson. Ii is good
exercise" And they started for Cornell Uni
yersity at Ml,rdHkee San.