Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-03-19
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"Reminiscences OF HAz,No.

"REMINISCENCES OF HAziNo.
How some sophomores Were Convinced
OF lts Extreme observation-disclosures.
81 never read accounts in the news
papers of the pranks of college boys in
'hazing' the freshmen" said white.
haired, rosy faced old New Yorker in the
parlor of q big athletic club the other
night, "but my mind reverts at once to
hazing scrape got myself into in my
salad days. Like nil sophomores, l
was particularly intolerant of fresh.
men, much more SO OF course than the
seniors. We had been strictly forbid.
den by the faculty to do any hazing at
sli under penalty Ct expulsion, and SO
we could not get together more than
were willing to take the risk in order
to punish the freshmen properly for
daring to live aud presenting 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, nnd then
mako a 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 a night, and
were enj,ying the sport thoroughly.
The following night it became the
turn of a long, raw-boncd, quiet, bash.
full 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 an.
ticipn,ed some rare sport with him, and
remember now the naughty feeling
with which I strobe into his dark bed
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VIC had pried his door open with one
good twist of real burglars Jimmy
1.-The other men had generally cow.
cred under their bed-clothes or arisen
trem bling 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 a word, he made not = sound as he
moved about in the dark, but oh, my!
how he did swat us! l never before
experienced such fendish strength as
that fellow seemei to have. We werc
not familiar with his room, and it
seemed to be full of furniture against
which we Stun bicd and over and under
which he knocked us in the darkness
with the precision and force of 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. l know that after I had caught
a terrific righthander on the tip of my
nose, which sent me backward over an
wfully angular coal.scutt!c. l kept on
my hands and knees aud wabb, ed d bout
in u blind search for the door. with the
bloc 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 stom achs with
heels made tough by running barefoot
on his native shingly beaches. he
mauled VS. he pulled our hair out, he
scratched us, he loossncd our teeth, he
broke our noses, he jogg;ed our most
internal organs, he utterly de,noraiized
! us. this whirl lwin1 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 a hasty estimate OF our cuts
and abraisons. said:
"'The Maine fellow must have gone
out, boys, and left gorilla in his bed
instead.
''But Just then we heard that vicious
freshman call out with a mocking
laugh: Now go to bed, little men. and
co,ue again some other night, when
you're rested This hazin's heaps of
, fun
But we had decided that the sport
was uumanly, anyway, and not the
proper sort of thing for young gentle
men to engage IN. y. Tribune.