The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-02-23
HAZiNG IN COLLEGES.
Ft Is as Bad In Female Colleges as Ono
Could Well Imagine.

| Tt Is as Bad In Female Colleges as Ono
Could Well Imagine.
Human nature is very much the Same
| in all institutions of learning, and first
year students who venture to be too
presumptuous are usually disciplined
by their upper classmates. 1t makes
no difference whether they are attend
| ing college for the development OF
| football players and crack oarsmen,
or are cultivating the graces OF dane
| ing, music and needlework in an insti-
tuition where the sterner sex is not adj
mitted. The fresh girl is treated very
much the same as the freshman. When
q young miss enters a boarding-school
she generally thinks she owns the half
| of the world which does not belong to
| her strapping brother who is just ma
| circulating at college. He sports a
high hat and carries bag and cane,
and the same spirit prompts her to
climb into high-heeled shoes and don
a sealskin sacque and wear a hustle.
In such a case the youth is put through
q course OF sprouts by the maturing
sophomore, and the same thing must
se done to her of the hustle to mold
the giddy girl into something like
fwomanhood.
This is how it works. The young
lady of fifteen determines to wear a
sealskin coat although such articles
re pronfbfted BY the sophomore girls
of the college. A sealskin fight fol-
lows just as naturally as a cane rush.
1t would not do to tear up sealskin
promiscuously, so when the young lady
wants to appear defiant she dons an
\ imitation seal-sl1in, sometimes made of
cheese-cloth, and parades before her
irate elders. Then the fun commences.
Half hundred young Amazons pounce
on her, screaming and shouting. and
the way that imitation seal-skin is
ripped and torn would shame a flock
of vultures. Within two minutes the
sacque has lost all resemblance to a
neat fitting garment, and the victorious
sophomore girls go on parade, each
decked with sort of imitation seal
skin bouquet-de-corsage.
High-heeled shoes meet with much
the same treatment. But the glory of
the female college shines brightest in
the hustle fight. It's bold, first-class
girl that will wear a hustle before she
has aged year in college. But now
and then some warlike Boadicea de-
termines to take to herself that article
which has been ikened to ''manufac-
tured to-back-her." She purchases
one OF abnormal size, and once arrayed
in it, starts forth to onset. The bag
fight, the hat fight, the cane fight are
nothing to the slaughter that follows.
Shes torn by finger nails, crushed,
scratched and pinched until the hustle
yields and is made into a football. AS
the girl draws off for breathing spell.
there goes floating off in the breeze
tresses of hair shaded all the way from
Auburn to Schenectady. But the re-
suit Of this harsh treatment is that the
fresh girl is no longer fresh. She gives
1 up her lien on large section of the
j gobe, and is not thereafter head and
Y Shoulders above her mates. Some
times fresh girls receive different
kind of treatment. One method is for
the sophomores to summon them to Il
feast. the viands OF which are cooked by
sophomore hands. Imagine the misery
of such dining. But the civilization
of the nineteenth century is driving
out those middle age horrors. --Phila-
delphia Record.