The Press., 1884-05-15
SULLIVAN A PRINCETON GRADUATE.

Every one knows of the trick that was played some two years ago by Fresh man at Princeton college, at which time the custom of "hazing" in a really brutal manner was so prevalent there. The haz- ing gang of Sophomores that year were so rough and cruel that the faculty was at it's wits ends to devise some means for its suppression. One or two cases of severe and lasting bodily injuries to the victims placed so serious an aspect upon matters that applicants for scholarships were few. At this juncture the father of a new man, who dad incurred the enmity of the hazers, conceived an ingenious idea He quietly hunted up Sullivan, took him up to Prince ton, had conference with the president of the college, and the same day the cham pion, who bore the appearance of meek looking young man with eyeglasses aud bad cough, was entered as a student and assigned a room in the dormitory
 That night about twenty of the eva hoos," as the hazers called themselves, stole softly to the new members room. Having arranged their Gear -twisters," ''toe- -pincllers,' and other instruments of torture to their satisfaction, they took off their coats, rolled up their sleeves, and tappt d gently on the door of their victim, who mildly invited them in.
 The invaders lit the gas and beheld the new conner lying in bed smoking cigar cite, and benignly regarding the mob through his goggles.
 "Get up there, Freshie. We're going to have some fun with you," they said
 Mot really ?" said the victim, with hollow cough.
 "Yes look spry now p
 "Well, if I must, I suppose I must" whimpered the new man, jumping out on the floor. The next moment the ringlead- CT of the lnquisitors got a ''facer' that drove him clear across the room and through the sash of the window.
 The survivors of what followed all agree that language entirely fails to do justice to the scene. Sullivan kicked the door shut, and then sailed in and began piling up the dead. Some of them did not get around again for three weeks, and half dozen badly fatened Sullivan" noses can be seen in this years graduating class.
 This is the story most of our readers have heard. The result was to entirely abolish shazing" at Princeton until the beginHing of the present session, when the old custom started in with renewed vigor.
 A student named Harrison, from Cleve- land learned that his ''den" was to be raided upon certain night That day he
  by means of a cabbage, decoyed to his room, under cover of darkness, 8 peculiar ly vigorous and vindictive billy-goat, the terror of that quarter.
 He kept the animal in pacific frame of mind by much provender until the hour for the assault. When the Freshman heard the stealthy gathering of the clans outside the door he turned off the gas, gave the goat 8 few jabs with pen-knife to liven it up, and dodged behind the door.
 As soon as the besiegers had rushed in he shut the door, locked it, and hastily climbed upon the wardrobe, being just in time to escape the first rush of the billy, who knocked three men over the bed the very first Diff.
 The pandemonium of shrieks, curses and butts lasted for some five minutes. Then forlorn hope of battered hazers managed to grope their way to the door and tear it open. As they tumbled out into the now crowded hall half-hundred excited voices asked what the matter was.
 "Matter ?" gasped one of the worst used-up of the gang, "why, they've rung that cussed Sullivan in on us again !''- NeU. York World.