The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-07-24

4 friend of ours, who at one time resid
ed adjoining the campus of a celebrated
institution Of learning, used frequently to
say that sa gang Of State prison eonviots,
of the same number, could not and would
not behave with less regard for the rights
of others than these same students Of a
high school of instruction" AS an illustra-
ton of the "high jinks" lately cut by the
students at Yale College, we give the fol-
lowing from the Boston Globe:
New Haven, Conn, June 1.-The stu
dents of Yale University, 1000 strong, re-
ceived Barnum & Bailey's great show this
morning.
The street parade began about O'Clock,
and arrived at the campus just as the
morning Rotations were beng dismissed.
The students, however, were prepared,
and two hundred of them had their pock-
cts bullying with torpedoes, purchased
from a dealer near the campus, who had
laid in a large stock of extra large ones.
No sooner had the head of the process
sion turned the corner than torpedoes were
thrown in showers.
The horses began to jump, rear, and
plunge at the bursting of the torpedoes,
which was augmented by the frequent dis
charge of fire-crackers and blowing of
horns.
The drivers of the first three art chariots
handled their horses with GOODNESS, and
managed to urge them by the crowd of
yelling students.
The bands played as hard as possible,
and it was not until the players we're Mt
terly besieg ed with the cracking missiles,
that they ceased playing and hid below
the benches.
A woman representing a Goddess of
Liberty, riding on top ofone Of the wagons,
was compelled to retire from her position.
1t was not until the chariot bearing the
jubilee singers came along that any serious
consequences seemed apparent.
This chariot was drawn by six gray
horses, and the first torpedo that struck
the flank of the leaders set the horses
~plunging madly. As the torpedoes came
thicker and faster, the whole six were al
most instantly engaged in a desperate at
tempt to bolt onto the sidewalk.
The cages containing wild animals came
next, and were greeted with a fusilade of
torpedoes. which caused them to roar
loudly. Lions, tigers, ~leopards, hYenas,
wildcats, and wolves all howled at once,
and rushed wildly about the cages regard
less of the lashings of their keepers.
1t was only by the most brutalclubbings
that the keepers succeeded in keeping the
Infatuated animals from attacking them.
When the elephants came along they
were made the especial target for the mis-
siles, which fell upon them in handiuls,
and for the second time danger seemed i'm
minent, for the big brutes began to beat
the air with their trunks, believing their
anger, and one became so frightened that
! it started directly for the crowd.
There was a scattering among the stu
dents, who rushed into stores and sought
safety from the Infatuated beasts. The
elephant gave no heed to the shouts of his
keeper, and minded not a whit the hook
which was firmly imbedded in his ear;
beating the air with his trunk, he stood
believing on the sidewalk, and refused TO
move for several minutes.
In the meantime the students had dis
persed, and, satisfied that serious results
might follow their escapade, ceased to
throw torpedoes.
There were several instances where lady
riders lost their seats, and were only saved
from falling to the ground by the care of
attendants. Several horses were so badly
frightened that they left the procession
and dashed wildly down the streets.
A midnight raid on a professors house,
with a view to putting him in a bag and
shaving off his whiskers, may be what
they call preparing young men for college
up at Phillips Exeter Academy, but it de
serves to be deemed a pretty good fit for a
p~enitentiary.
But how is it at Harvard University?
We saw in the Boston daily papers, a few
days since, that a fire in one of the worst
holes near Boston had revealed a dog pit,
where dog fights were gotten up for the
special benefit of Harvard students. And
now we find in the papers that the propri-
etors of two OF our largest and best hotels,
Parker's and Young's, has decided that no
more large bodies of Harvard students
will be permitted to dine at either of their
hotels.
If this is the kind of men our foremost
universities and colleges are turning out,