The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-05-05
"REMINISCENCES or aAAzINc.

How some Sophomores Were Convinced
Of it, Extreme Ungent1emanliness.
y never read accounts in the news,
papers Of the pranks of college boys in
'hazing' the freshmen said q white
haired, rosy-faced old New Yorker in the
parlor OF big athletic club the other
night, but my mind reverts at once TO
hazing scrape got myself into in my.
salad days Like all sophomores,
was particularly intolerant of fresh
men, much more 80 of course than the
seniors. We had been strictly forbid
den by the faculty to do any hazing at
all under penalty of expulsion, and so
we could not get together more than
half dozen adventurous souls who
were willing to take the risk in order
to punish the freshmen properly for.
daring to live and presuming to comS
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 fresh
man and do him up without any un-
necessary fuss
1--WE had operated successfully on two
or three men, only one in night, and
were enjoying the sport thoroughly.
The following night it became the
turn of long, raw-boned, quiet. BASH
full youth from Maine, who had little
ornothing to say to any one, and whose
only care seemed to be to keep his
hands and feet out of Sight We an
ticipated some rare sport with him, and
/ remember now the naughty feeling
with which strobe into his dark bed
chamber at the head of our gang after
we had pried his door open with one
good twist of a real burglars Jimmy
The other men had generally cow
erred under their@bed-elothes or arisen
trembling in their night-shirts and
asked piteously to be let alone. This
Maine man jumped out of bed, how
ever, as If glad to meet us. He said
not word, he made not a sound as he
moved about in the dark, but oh, my!
how he did swat us! never before
experienced such fendish 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 stun bled and over and under
which he knocked us in the darkness
with the precision and force of a trip
hammer. He seemed to have cats
sight, and he knew the room thorough
ly, and the way he damned us was so
unexpected that we got confused and
lost our reckoning in trying to get out
of that internal room again.
II don't believe one of us hit him
once. know that after I had caught
terrific right-hander 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 He hit us with fists
like hams, he threw chairs at us, he
kicked us 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 his native shingly 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 out of his horrid
den, more dead than alive, and had
time to collect our shattered senses
and make hasty estimate of our cuts
and abraisons, l said:
"'The Maine fellow must have gone
out, boys, and left gorilla i'm his bed
instead
But just then we heard that vicious
freshman call out with a hooking
laugh: Now go to bed, little men. and
come again some other night, when
you're restedr This hazin's heaps of
fun
''But we had decided that the sport
was unmanly. anyway, and not the
proper sort of thing for young gentle
man To annana in IN V Trihnna