Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-26
"REMINISCENCES OF HAz1N0.

How Some sophomorcs Were Convinced of
Its Experimentation
From the New York Tribune
Il never read accounts in the newspapers of
the pranks Of college boys in 'hazing' the fresh
men," said white-haired, rosy-faced old New
Yorker in the parlor of big athletic club the
other night, but my mind reverts at once to q
hazing scrape l got myself into in my salad
days. Like all sophomores, was particularly
intoierant OF freshmen; much more %. OF
course, than the seniors. We had been strictly
forbidden by the faculty to do any hazing at
aii under penalty of expulsion, and SO we could
not get together more than half q dozen adven-
furious souls who were willing to take the risk
IN order to punish the freshmen properly for
daring to live and presuming to come to the
college at all. We had to do the thing quietly.
SO after all the lamps were out we would steal
from our rooms meet in the corridor and then
make descent on some lonely freshman and
do him up without any unnecessary fuss.
I'VE had operated successfully on two or
three men, only one in night, and were en-
joying the sport thoroughly. The following
night 1t became the turn Of a long, rawboued,
quiet. basbful youth from Maine, who had
little or nothing to say to any one and whose
only care seemed to be to keep his hands and
feet out Of sight We anticipated some rare
sport with him, and i remember now the
naughty feeling with which strobe into his
dark bedchamber at the head of our gang after
we had pried his door open with one good
twist OF real burglars Jimmy
The other men had generally covered un-
der their bedclothes or arisen trembling in
their nlghtshirts and asked piteousy to be let
alone. This Maine man jumped out of bed,
however, as If glad to meet us. He said not
word, he made not q sound as he moved about
| in the dark, but oh, my how he did swat us
never before experienced such fiendish
| strength as that fellow seemed to have We
were not familiar with his room, and it seemed
TO be full OF furniture, against which we
stumbled and over and under which he
and force of a trip hammer. He seemed to
have cats sight and he knew the room thor
oughly and the way he damned us was SO I'M
expected that We got confused and lost our
reckoning In trying to get out of that internal
Il don't believe one of us hit him once. I
know that after had caught terrific right
handler on the tip of my nose. which sent me
backward over an awfully angular coal scuttle
l kept on my hands and knees and wabbled
about In blind search for the door, with the
blood pouring into my mouth and over my
shirt front lie hit US with fists like hams. He
threw chairs at He kicked u.s. when we
went down, with his bare toes, which seemed as
hard as iron. He jumped on our stomachs
with heels made tough by running barefoot on
MS native shlngiy beaches. He mauled us. He
pulled our hair out. He scratched us. He
loosened our teeth. He broke our noses. He
joggled our most internal organs. He utterly
demoralized us, this whirlwind from Maine,
and when at last we all got ont of his horrid
den, more alive than dead, and had had time to
collect our shattered senses and make hasty
estimate of our cuts and abrasions, said:
1.-The Maine fellow must have gone out.
boys. and left gorilla in his bed instead
But just then We heard that vicious fresh
man cali out with a hooking laugh, Now, 20 to
bed. little men, and come again some other
night when you're rested. This hazin's heaps
of fun
but we had decided that the sport was I'M
manly. anyway. and not the proper sort of
thing for young gentlemen to engage i'm