The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-01-01
A FEW COLLEGE YARNS.

A FEW COLLEGE YARNS.
"Talking of hazing," said a uniyer-
sity club man the other evening, "Pm
here with some emphasis and accent to
say it is not always a success. | was
with a ,sarty Of students once who,
having SCI their academic hearts on
hazing rough and uncouth specimen
from Vermont, repaired to his room
about II o'clock one night to perform
these rites. There we're seven Of the
invaders, including myself, and we 81
lently collected in the corridor outside
the freshman's door. In order to be
impressive in our entrance at a given
signal we hurled ourselves against the
portal and burst it in.
"I recall a feeling Of pride as the
door went in at the success Of this first
step, but nothing distinctly aterward.
In the dim, religious light which
sifted through the curtains from the
swinging moon we beheld long,
sparse and meager being who few out
of bed and fell upon us. He was silent
as bulldog, but quick and ferociousI
as cat. I never saw such q creature.
I.got a blow which I vividly remember.
comparing on the spot to a fail,
comparison, by the way,ggswhich I do
not now alter or regret. The whole
affair did not last ten minutes, and its Z
close found myself and the other !
hazers battered and bruised and out
in the hall.
RAISING THE HORSE. s
.The Vermonter did not even at.
tempt to close the door after us, such
was his contempt for our prowess. He
went over to a washstand while We
consulted in the hall. We did not go
back in his room. We could, Of
course, but we saw it would consume
a great deal Of time and the hour was :
late. So we gave it up.
"tSay, you Vermont mani Lsaid as 8
we were about to leave, 7 trust you
are not mean enough to report this to-
the faculty !?
"'Not at ALL he said with a-cheery
laugh. 4 like it., Come again any
time you please. Your attentions are
very gratifying to my pride.'n
"Where [ was" said the listener,
eve had little fun one night-per-1
fectly bloodless, however-which in
its results always rose an insolvable
mystery to the profound head Of the !
institution. The professor had an old
fat, sluggish horse, which abode in "a
small pasture or paddock close to the
college. One night party of us re-
paired thither and proceeded by means
of rails laid square, just as children
build cob houses, all decked over Or
foored with some two inch plarksN
which lay convenient, to build a plat-
form. We raised it at first perhaps
eighteen inches from the ground.
Then we built second close beside
the first and made it three feet high.
"The horse was led up on the first
and from there to the second. Them,
taking off the plank floor, we eaddeda
about four rails to each OF the four
sides and carried the first platform to 4
about eighteen inches higher than the
one on which the horse stood. This
was planked over and the old horse
invited to climb on it, which he did in;
docile, oppositionless way very vim
ming to our young hearts. Well, we
continued this alteration business,
leading the old war horse from one Z
pedestal to the other until he was {
twelve feet i'll the air, perched on an !:
eminence of rails and planks. z
"This suited the most fastidious Of
the party, and we tore away the rail
and plank construction the horse had
no further use for and piled it care
fully back in its several parts just
where we got it. The old horse, who
seemed to realize his position, 4 M
stroll about any, but made the f |
it, lying down and going to
The professors were much astoundeap
in the morning and never were able to-
figure it out. They sent to a neigh
boring town for help and got the horse
down with derrick.
PRAYING AGAINST FIRE.
"Another time," continued the ra-s.
contour, ga party of us had been out ]
on that sacred night Halloween tear
.ing off gates and signs and otherwise
sporting ourselves after the fashion
Sof college youth the world around
We had brought about cord Of.
broken store signs up to Jim Martins
room, and were merrily burning them
in his big fireplace The ceremonies
were at their height when two or three
professors, excited to the movement
by indignant townspeople, whose signssd
being rayished had followed us t9d4|
college gates, raped loga|ss & &
door for admission; SRI
to be :; done, as. as il