New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-21
F1cULrY AND STUDEN7S AT PRINCETON
DETERMINED TO STOP uAzING-To-pAY's FOOTBALL
GAM WITH YALE

DETERMINED TO STOP uAzING-To-pAY's FOOTBALL
GAM WITH YALE.
2c the razor Of The Tribune.
SIR: A recent suggestion of THE TRIHUNE's
10 ia t Princeton trustees, that hazng might bc
abolished by pnching the hazcrs is detective IN one
important particular. The has the same weakness.
with the scheme for catching birds by putting salt
their tails Mrs. Glass might say To inch hazcr
r,t catch him. Here is the trouble in all the colleges
by the ethics OF college life, Fresman may be pumped
or repeatedly bathed put TO bed or compelled 10 de-
eaim but If he reveal the OF the visiting Sopho
mores 10 IS guilty of tue objectionable sin. Honor
among thieves nothing TO the college notion OF honor
which forbids the sole witness OF nm outrage namely
the viotm-o testify against his as:aiauts. But tho
Princeton authorities have made good progress N pat
ting stop TO the c0Wardy and brutal practice Of haz
ing' Four students have been detected and Indefinitely
aismssed. They cannot for year aud perhaps
never. And the Investigation still continues.
Inc recent "hazing" at Princeton is tho frat out
break OF the kind for my years When the last disturb
anca occurred the late Chancellor Green, OF Trenton
trustee the college brought the leverage OF the civil
authority 10 bear, tho practice disappeared for
years systematic ana vigorous measures now on
foot both for preventing and severely Furnishing this
uunauy ocnc Parents OF students are TO DO warned.
glasses are to warned the dOruoreS VI the c0lose
are DO pOllcod mas been don0 before, at
university or college. Freshmen TO DO projected,
both by proper and severe punhment OF offend
ers Manly sports are to Oc encouraged within proper
limits. Snoakng and attacks by numbers Of fcl.
lows upon single students be treated with the
prompt and decisive inicon OF the poualtes they
But best OF all, there Is growing disposition among
the upperclssmn aud the manly clement in the college
to take tue mat CIR IN thor hands The student
sentiment is dead against what Is cowardly brutal
The faculty have encouraged this proper feeling
students within the past week by listening respect
fully delegation Of students IN regard to the forth
coming football game brtwCeD Princeton and Yale aud
have suspended previous OrdcrOl the college and
permission 20 play the game Ou the Polo Grounds Ia
New-IOrk The students are In the best possible huluOr
tho faculty, and cOugcniaity between the
bodies evciopin2 which promises much future
"HaZng Is not peculiar To any Eastern college.
Disturbances have occurred at Harvard, Yale AT
Williams aud Amherst ihIs year. president Of
Of these college, has recently said that "halns in
liiAl TOT ~ inertdcabc IN tho American sophomore
hopes that who insist on beng do krys may
IN the course Of evolution, by hotAoscnsC, become
tIona at last given time by the tacullcs 10 ehect III
qiirt al home whenever tho imheclHty lnahlicsts
itself.
The football game between Yale and Princeton to be
played 2lt at NrwlIayeu Will hc the most inter
estng the FTHcotOnS i"tn. Is c1rcpn0hnliy
strong They have beaten all cOiDcrS thus FAR Yale
pTOvcrniaiy bard tn heat Last year the game
Resulted dispute declared tie. This yodi 4
years Yale la, choice Of tho place where tho gnne
is Ia be played aud has decided against New YORK and
in favor New Haven. This greatly 70 Iale's advhn
tagc and T. disappointment 10 Princeton tale
viii have the backing at all its students. PRINCETON VIII
have tho depressing influence OF beng without support
NASSAU.
l1lAcctoa. n J., Nov. 10, 1885.