The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-05
Discounted Sophomores.

Every one knows of the trick that
was played some two years ago by q
Freshman at Princeton College, at
which time the custom of ''hazing' in,
a really brutal manner was so prevalent
there. The hazing gang of Sophomores
that year were so rough and cruel that
the faculty was at its wits end to de-
wise 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 APP
plicants for scholarships were few. At
this iuncture the father of a new man,
who had incurred the enmity of the
hazers by stubbornly resisting their at
tacks, conceived an ingenious idea. He
quietly hunted up Sullivan, took him
up to Princeton, had conference with
the President of the college, and the
same day the champion, who bore the
appearance of a meek-looking Young
man with eyeglasses and bad cough,
was entered as student and assigned
room in the dormitory.
That night about twenty of the
''Wahoos," as the hazers called them
selves, stole softly to the new members
room. Having arranged their Gear
twisters,' e-pinchers,n and other
instruments of torture to their satisfac-
ton, they took off their coats, rolled up
their sleeves, and tapped gently on the
door of their victim, who mildly invited
them in.
The invaders lit the gas and beheld
Ao or Hrinor in, hnl
cigaret, and benignly regarding the
mob through his goggles.
Get up there, Freshie. We're going
to have some fun with YOU they said.
Not really?" said the victim, with q
hollow cough.
Yes; look spry nowE' Z
''Well, if | must, suppose | must, ="
whimpered the new man, jumping out
on the floor. The next moment the
ringieader of the inquisitors 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 the 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 didn't get around again
for three weeks, and half dozen badly
fiattened 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 ''hazing'' at Princeton until the
beginning of the present session, when
the old custom started in with renewed
vigor.
A student named Harrison, from
Cleveland, learned that his '.den' was
to be raided upon a certain night. That
day he repaired to the outskirts of the
town, and by means of a cabbage, de-
coyed to his room, under cover of dark
ness, peculiarly, vigorous and vindic-
4 tive billy-goat, the terror of that quarter.
He kept the animal in a pacific frame
of mind by much provender until the
| hour for the assault. When the Fresh
man heard the stealthy gathering of the
| clans outside the door he turned off tie
| gas. gave the goat few iabs with 3
| penknife 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, be
ing Just in time to escape the first rusi
of the billy, who knocked three mel
over the bed the very first bif.
The pandemonium of shricks, curse
and butts lasted for some five minutes
Then forlorn hope of battered hazer
managed to grope their way to the doc
and tear it open. AS they tumbled on
into the now crowded hall a half-hun
bred excited voices asked what the mat
ter was.
| ''MatterP'' gasped one of the wors
used-up of the gang. Why, they'v
rung that cussed Sullivan in on u
avain IN y W0rid .,. ~