The Portland daily press., 1883-12-17

The Alleged Case of Hazing.
Special Correspondence Of the Press.)

Special Correspondence Of the Press
There has been paragraph going the
rounds of the papers, stating that hazing was
once more in full swing at Bowdoin, and that
the "kinky" Sophs. were making the lives of
the freshmen miserable by their mad pranks
Now this is far from the truth Of the matter.
The only thing that has occurred which, in
any way, can be construed as bazing, is not
the term. A freshman went out in the even
ing and left his room unlocked During his
absence some one entered the room and dam
aged his property to some extent. In all prob
ability this was not a sophomore, but an upper
classman who had some grudge against the
freshman and took this despicable way to be
revenged. AS far as is known, the best feeling
exists between the sophomores and freshmen.
Last year the sophomores when they were
freshmen, took the stand that they would
neither haze nor be hazsd, and they honestly
adhered to the compact. Not single sopho-
more is member of the Phi Chi, hazing So
ciety, which has flourished in years past. The
great majority of the students are opposed to
hazing, but there are few, especially among
the upper classmen, who would fain revive this
relic of barbsrism, and are anxious to have
the sophomores regulate" the freshmen. But
thus far the sopaomores have respected the
rights of the freshmen, and, notwithstanding
the hue and cry raised by some of our news
during the term than the one above men
toned, if indeed it can be called hazing. W.
THE CASE AS REPORTED IN THE BOSTON GLOBE.
Two brothers, H. F. Moulton and c. +. Moulton,
of Cumberland, members of the freshman class
had been making themselves in many ways often
siye to the students of the higher classes. They
are strong, able-bodied young men, and evidently
felt themselves able to go through college without
consulting the wishes of any student, and SO de-
clined to pay the least attention to student GUS
toms or regulations, and in particular did not pro
pose to regard what may be termed the common
law OF the college. There was once in Bowdoin a
very famous society, the "Phi Chi" and it was the
duties, to that OF hazing the freshmen. Now. il
was part OF the common law of the college that
the freshmen must not sing certain college songs
and, above ALL must not sing song that the 'sPh
Chi fellowship reserved or itself and as that sacred
Phi Chi'' melody was directed against the fresh
men there seemed to be very little reason why they
should desire to sing it, anu great therefore was
the rage of the .sdons'' when the Moulton BOYS
made the college halls resound with this sacred
'sPhi Chi' chant:
Swing out the brave old banner, for the resurrec-
tion's come.
Bring out the horn Of plenty and the old ancestral
drum.
Bring out the ponderous gewgaw that made old
Gomorrah hum,
For Phi Chi's' in her ancient glory.
And the upper class men were doomed also to
hear the Moulton Brothers sing this verse, surely
never made for freshmen to sing:
Then hide the grinning skeleton and close the coffin
lid,
And the freshman in 1t till his infant form is
hid,
For he must learn that he must do precisely as he's
bid,
For Phi Chi's in her ancient glory.
The following verse was at once a challenge and
suggestion of a remedy for SO marked case Of
disrespect:
There are pals, and there's windows and there's
water in the well,
AS the freshman viii discover if he tries to cut a
swell.
Oh! water for his diet till existence is hell,
For Phi Chi's in her ancient glory.
The room of the offending brothers was visited,
and the bed well wet down, while liberal supply
of some drug that does not give out sweet-smell
ing odor left behind when the visitors retired
and the room not in condition to be occupied
when the brothers returned.