The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-15
"REMINISCENCES OF AAzlNG.

How Some SophomOres Were Convinced
of Its Experimentation.
81 never read accounts in the newspapers
of the pranks of college boys in 'hazing'
| the freshmen" said a white haired, rosy
| faced old New Yorker in the parlor of a
| big athletic club the other night, but my
| mind reverts at once to a haZing scrape
got myself into in my salad days. Like all
| Sophomores, | was particularly intolerant
| of freshmen; much more so of course than
! the seniors
"We had been strictly forbidden by the
faculty to do any haHing ut all, under pen
atty of expulsion, and so we could not get
together more than half dozen adventllr-
Gus souls who were willing to take the risk
! in order to punish the freshmen properly
for daring to live and presuming 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 and then make descent
on some lonely freshmen and do him up
without any unnecessary fuss.
I'VE had operated successfully on two or
three men, only one in a night and were
enjoying the sport thoroughly. The fol
Lowing night it became the turn of long,
raw 0oned, quiet, bashful youth from
Maine, who had little or nothing TO say to
any one, and whose only care seemed to be
30 keep his hands and feet out of sight.
We anticipated some rare sport with him,
and | remember now the naughty feeling
with which | strobe into his bedchamber
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 covered
under their bedclothes or risen trembling
in their nightgowns and asked piteously to
be let alone. This Maine man jumped out
of bed, however, as if glad to meet US. he
said not a word, he made not sound, IS
he moved about in the dark, but, oh my!
how he did swat us! / never before expe-
rienced such fiendish strength as that fell
low seemed to have. We were not familiar
with his room, and it seemed to be full of
furniture. against which we stumbled and
over and under which he knocked US in the
darkness with the precision and force of a
trip hammer. He seemed to have a cats
sight and he knew the room thoroughly,
and the way he damned US was so unex-
pected that we got confused and lost our
reckoning in trying TO get out of that in
fernal room again.
Il don't believe one of us hit him once. l
know that after ] had caught a terrific
right handler 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 bare
foot on bis native shingly beaches, he
mauled us, he pulled our hair out, he
scratched us, he looscned our teeth. he
broke our noses. he joggled our most in
ternal organs he utterly demoralized US,
this whirlwind from Maine, and when at
last we all got out of his horrid den. more
alive than dead, and had had time to col
lect our shattered senses and make hasty
estimate Of our cuts and abrasions, 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 come again
some other night when you're rested.
This haZfn's heaps of fun
But we had decided that the sport was
anyway, aud not the proper sort
OF thing fer young gentlemen to engage
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