Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-04-28
THOSE RECENT HAzINGS.

The reports of the hazing operations
OF the young men in one branch and
the young women 10 another of the Ohio
Wesleyan University on Friday night
last read more like accounts OF the bar
barrie treatment OF prisoners at the
stake by their Indian captors than .
record of the doing Of civilized whites,
even at a Southwestern lynching bee.
The young men mishandled were strip
ped and whipped with ropes, burned
with hot shovels and branded with nj
trate of silver, and the girls were also
branded In the same way.-Broolilyn
Citizen.
The disfguring of several OF the
young women students OF tho Ohio Wes-
ieyap university by other female stu
dents By branding their necks, faces
aud arms with nitrate OF silver was one
of those brutal college pranks that 1t Is
hard TO find On adequate motive for. 1t
is said that it was prompted by a desire
to keep the victim from attending q
senior reception. Whatever the motive
the act was an outrage that calls for the
condIgn punishment Of the Offenders
NelU York Press.
The Ohio bsrbarians proceeded 10
burn upon the faces OF the victims by
means OF chemicals, the initial letters
of society. 1t is said the college su-
thorities will do nothing, as the Of
tenders are sons Of wealthy supporters
of the institution. But there seems TO
be humanity and order enough Ia the
surrounding community TO seek the
punishment OF the young savages. who
are now in hidlng.-SpTmGfeld Repttb-
licdn.
No language can express the horror
and indignation OF the public at the
outrages perpetrated 81 Delaware by
Wesleyan University students upon
their fellows. The statement made,
too, concerning the faculty is almost
beyond belief. That any board OF trus-
tees or teachers should preach lenIency,
or dodge the fact that the outrage de-
mands punishment. severe and sum
mary, seems criminal.-ToLedo Blade.
The Ohio Wesleyan University stu
dents who are burning buildings, brand
ing young women and men with red
hot irons and caustic chemicals, ETC.,
do not belong to any OF the tribes OF
savsges of whose determination Column
bus discovery 400 years ago was the be-
ginning. If they did the United States
army would be upon them In less than
forty-eight h01rS.-LoutSutltG Courier
Journal.
II the young men or young women In
college or school commit criminal acts
they should be treated as criminals.
animal spirits" and "good connec-
tions" should no more save them from
the consequences OF their deliberate
acts than the same pleas would save
other young men and women who
should commit similar acts.-Indtdnd-
polls NelrS.
Unless the authorities OF the Della
ware College see TO 10 that the full
weight OF the laws correcting arm is
visited upon the young savages who
we're guilty Of the outrage OF last Fri
day the institution should be forced TO
suspend and its officers should them
selves be punished as accessories TO the
shameful act.-Kdpsds GUY Journal.
Taken altogether these stories show
that Delaware colleglans have to a
lamentable extent In considerable num-
bers degenerated into toughs and black
guards, and that the young women 4,
school there are little more gentle than
their rowdy schoolmates OF the stronger
sex.-ChdNnoOGd Times.
Those students OF the Ohio Wesleyan
University who branded some OF their
comrades for life with nitrate OF silver
have been dismissed from college. Now
let the law deal with them as 1t would
with any other brutes. -Boston Journal
Hazers who use nitrate OF silver In
tattoolng their victims ought to be
branded with hot irons. In this case
the mikado's advice TO make the pun
ishmert fit the crime is highly desira-
Bile. -Hdrrisburg Patriot.