The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-04-22
"REMINISCENCES OF HAzlNo.
How Some sophomores We're Convinced
nj Its Had Taste.

u never read accounts in the news
papers Of the prarks OF college boys in
.'hazing' the freshmen" said white
haired, rosy-faced old New-Yorker in
the parlor of big athletic club the
other night to Tribune reporter, "but
my mind reycrts at ence to a hazing
days. Like hll sophomores, was par
ticularly intolerant to freshmen; much
more so Of course than the seniors.
We had been strictly forbidden 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 dar-
ing to live and presuming to come to
the college at all. We had to do the
thing quietly, SO after all the lamps
we're 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.
,"We had operated successfully on
two or three mon, only one in night,
and were enjoying the sport thorough
ly. The following night it became the
turn of long, raw-boned. quiet, bash
ful youth from Maine, who had little
or nothing to say to any one, and
whose only care seemed TO he to keep
his hands and feet out of sight. We
anticipated some rare sport with him,
and / remember 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 real burglars jimmy
"rhe other men had generally cow
cred under their bed.clothes or arisen
tremblingly 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 II word, he made not sound as he
moved about in the dark. but o. my
how he did swat us! never before
experienced such tiendish strength as
that fellow seemed to have. We were
not familiar with his room, and it
seemed to be full of furniture, against
which VIC stumbled, and over and UNI
der which he knocked us in the dark
ness, with the precision and force of q
trip-hammer. He seemed to have a
cats sight, and he knew the room
thoroughly, and the way he damned
us was so unexpected that we got con-
fused and lost our reckoning in trying
to get out of that in.ernal room again.
Il don't believe one of us hit him
once. know that after had caught
terrific right-hander on the tip of my
nose, which sent me backward over
an awfully angular coal-scuttle, 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. lie loosened
our teeth, he broke our noses, he Jog
gled our most internal organs, he ut
terly demoralized us. this whirlwind
from Maine, and when at last we all
got out of his horrid den, more dead
than alive, and had had time to col
lect our shattered senses and make a
hasty estimate of our cuts and abra-
sions, | said:
1.-The Maine fellow must have gone
out, boys, and left a gorilla in his bed
instead
but just then we heard that vicious
freshman call out with mocking
laugh, Now 60 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 unmanly, anyway, and not the
proper sort of thing for young gentle
mao to engage in"