Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1882-09-28
How Having Was Stopped.

yard College.
From the Milwaukee Sun.
Many have wondered why there has
not been a hazing at Harvard for the
past three months. In all that time
there has not been case of hazing re-
ported, and some have come to the con-
clusion that the hazers have met with
a change of heart. 1t is not exactly
a change of heart, but change of
clothes that ails them. We are in
formed that the hazing has been effec-
tually broken up. Just after Sulli-
van whipped Ryan he was called to
Harvard, and plan of breaking up
hazing was unfolded to him by the
faculty and he fell into it readily. He
was to attire himself as Quaker young
man, and apply for admission as
freshman and let nature take its course.
On the first day of April Mr.. Sullivan
appeared mt the college under the name
of Abba Watson, and was assigned to
a room and placed on the roll of fresh.
men. His appearance was commen.
ted on, and as he passed through the
grounds with his peculiar garb, young
men shouted, "Shoot the hat - Get
on to his nibs?" and other collegiate
literature. 1t was all Mr.. Sullivan
could do to restrain himself from whip
ping 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 accompany him to
a room where a few boys were going
10 open few bottles of wine. Abba
verify he didn't 90 much on this sinful
beverage, but to oblige his friend he
went with him to a large room where
seventy smart young fellows were con-
gregated with all the appliances for
hazing. Sullivan says there were seven.
ty, but the faculty only found sixty
five smart Alecks when the door was
opened, but Sullivan thinks few may
have jumped out of the window aud
took to the woods. 1t seems that when
they got the Quaker" into the room
they locked the door, and the ringlca-
der told the peaceful man to strip of
his coat, vest and shirt. He objected,
but finally took them of.
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 u hired man, and they
thought it queer that Quaker should
have an arm as big as a canvassed
ham. They then told him to prepare
to meet his God, and got out the iron
to brand him on the back. lie then
told them that he knew he was in
their power and was willing to submit
TO anything that was right, but he
asked as a favor not TO bear on too
hard, as he was of nervous tempera.
ment and might faint. Then they De.
cided not to brand him until later,
but would throw him up in blanket
first. So they got the blanket first
and tipped Sullivan over in it, aud
about twenty Of the sinartest 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. lie had
knocked down about twenty and had
stopped to spit on his hands when the
rest of the hazers huddled in corner
and proposed to put an end to the
slaughter. One said "Oh, good Mr..
Quaker, please let us alone We be-
long to respectable families, aud won't
do so any more" Sullivan looked at
them and said at is hazing ycz
want. Well, yez can have plinty,"
and he went at them, and in about
fifteen minutes he corded mp 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 hail. he said: Throw
water in their face, and they will re-
gain consciousness in from ten minutes
to half an hour" and he shook hands
with the faculty, received his five hun
dred dollars and left for New York
with his trainer, Billy Madden, who
was sitting on the fence outside wait.
ing for him.
"Fot kind of time did yez have
wild de b'ys?" asked Mr.. Madden, as
he helped Mr.. Sullivan on with his
shirt and changed the Quaker hat for
another.
verify, friend William" said
Quaker Sullivan, as he county the roll
Of bills to see that the faculty did not
shove any counthrfeits on him, at was
the evint of the season"
And they started for Cornell uni.
versity, at Ithaca.
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