Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1892-12-16
HAZING THE HAZERs.
A Vermonter aud Another, Now a Sens
tor, Who Were Equal to Emergencies

! ~ NeFmonter and Another, Now n Sens
tor, Who Were Equal to Emergencies
Talking Of haziug" said university
club man the other evening in the hear
ing of Kansas City Star reporter. I'm
here with some emphasis and accent to
I say 1t is not always a success / was
with party Of students once who, hav-
| ing set their academic hearts on hazing
rough and uncouth specimen from
Vermont, repaired TO his room about
IL o'clock one night to perform these
rites There were seven Of the i'm
vaders, including myself, and we
collected in the corridor outside the
freshman's door. In order to be inn
| pressive in our entrance, at a given
| signal we hurled ourselves against the
portal and burst it in. recall a feel
ing of pride as the door went in at the
success of this first step, but nothing
distinctly afterward.
"In the dim religious light that
sifted through the curtains from the
swinging moon we beheld long,
sparse, and meager being who flew out
of bed and fell upon US. lie was silent
as bulldog, but quick and ferocious
as a cat l never saw such a creature.
The whole affair did not last 10 minutes,
and its close found myself and the other
hazers battered and bruised and out in
the hall
81 thought only one man inhabited
that room, said a sorrowful sophomore
as he felt OF his various features in an
effort TO measure the distance so far as
he personally, was affected. There are
at least 10, for ! counted them, to say
nothing of the large African gorilla
which threw me out, and which | take
it they maintain as a pet
There was no one in there, however,
except that one Vermonter and he did
not even attempt to close the door after
us, such was his contempt for our
prowess.
I'VE did not go back into his room.
We could have gone, of course, but we
saw that il would consume a great deal
of time and the hour was late
Say, you Vermont man! | said as
we were about to leave, 4 trust you are
not mean enough to report this to the
facultyY
mot at all. he said q like it, Come
again any time you please
Another time, continued the racon-
tour, "a party of us had been out on that
sacred night, Halloween, tearing off
gates and signs, and otherwise disport-
ing ourselves after the fashion of college
youth the world around We had
brought about cord Of broken store
signs up 10 Jim Martins room and were
merrily burning them in his big fire
place. The ceremonies were at their
height when two or three professors, ex-
cited to the movement by indignant
townspeople, whose signs being Tavished
had followed Us 10 the college gates,
raped loudly at the door for admission.
Something had TO be done. as it would
never do TO let in the professors and
those broken evidences of our guilt
around.
~ man by the name of Jack Nesbit,
now a State senator in Nebraska, was
equal to the pinch, however.
1t was a rule Of the college that no
professor should be denied entrance to
room, no matter the hour, unless the
occupant was engaged in prayer In
event Of the present progress of this
religious exercise, the professor was
made TO wait until the amen and
could in nowise complain.
AT the first rap Neobit broke into
prayer. In loud sonorous tone he
sought mercy for himself and his com
panions. Continuing, he beleaguered the
throne of grace in behalf of the college
as we'll as the professors, singly and
in "a body. Next the students all
came in for notice by name, and in bulk.
as well as every attache of the place TO
the small person who cleaned knives
and forks in the kitchen. No one was
sighted or overlooked. Then Nesbit
went for the Government, and prayed
for the nation at large; then the Presi-
dent and his pressing needs were
named, and Divinity was pleaded with
for their fulfilment; then all the de-
partments and various officers Of State,
and when they were exhausted all the
States beginning with Maine and end
ing with California were interceded for.
After this Jack went to Europe, and
beginning with England related the
necessities of each government, and
sought their satisfaction. From there
he went to Asia, TO Africa, then to
South America, aud so on, until he was
drifting among the islands which dot
the Southern seas. Meanwhile the rest
of us turned stokers, and crowded the !
signs into the fireplace, where they
roared and leaped almost to the limits
of general confisgration. Just as Jack
was landing at Auckland the last
splinter went up in smoke and the dis.
gusted professors were let in. The
prayer must have been almost an hour |
long, and as the teachers filed in Nesbit
closed with some quotation from St |
Mark which refers to those who, seek.