Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-17
HAzING IN FEMALE COLLEGES.
1t Is as Bad Among the Amazons as One
Could Imagine,

Human nature is very much the same in all
institutions OF learning, says the Philadelphia
Record, and first-year students who venture to
be too presumptuous are usually disciplined
by their upper classmates. 1t makes no differ
ence whether they are attending a college for
the development of football players and crack
oarsmen, or are cultivating the graces of
dancing, music and needlework in an institu-
ton where the sterner sex is not admitted
The fresh girl is treated very much the same
as the fresh man. When a young miss enters
boarding-school she generally thinks she
owns the half of the world which does not
belong to her strapping brother who is just
matricuiating at college. He sports high
hat and carries a bag and cane, and the same
spirit prompts her to climb into high-heeled
shoes and don q sealskin sacque and wear a
hustle. In such case the youth is put through
a course of sprouts by the maturing sopho-
more, and the same thing must be done to her
OF the hustle to mold the giddy girl into some
thing like womanhood.
This is how it works: The young lady of if
teen determines to wear a sealskin coat
although such articles are prohibited by the
sophomore girls of the college. sealskin
fight follows just as naturally as a canerush
1t would not do to tear up sealskins promiscu-
ously, SO when the young lady wants to appear
defiant she dons an imitation sealskin, some
times made of cheesecloth. and parades before
her irate elders. Then the fun commences.
Half hundred young Amazons pounce on her,
screaming and shouting, and the way that imi-
tation sealskin is ripped and torn would shame
flock of vultures. Within two minutes the
sacque has lost all resemblance to neat-ftting
garment, and the victorious sophomore girls
go on parade, each decked with a sort of imi-
tation sealskin bouquet-de-corsage.
High-heeled shoes meet with much the same
treatment But the glory of the female col
lege shines brightest in the hustle fight. It's
a bold, frst-class girl that will wear hustle
before she has aged a year in college
But now and then some war-like b.
adica determines to take to herself
that article which has been likened to |man-
ufactured 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. She's torn by finger nails, crushed
scratched and pinched until the hustle yields
and is made into football. As the girls draw
off for breathing spell. there goes floating off
In the breeze tresses of hair shaded all the way
from Auburn to Schenectady. But the result
of this harsh treatment is that the fresh girl is
no longer fresh. She gives up her lien on
large section of the globe. and is not thereafter
head and shoulders above her mates Some
times fresh girls receive a different kind of
treatment. One method is for the sophomores
to summon them to 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 these
middle-age horrors