Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-05-15
Aumurons 9epartment.
HEAPS nE FIN In HAZING.

HEAPS Of FUN IN HAZING.
"I never read accounts in the news
papers of the pranks of college boys
in shazing' the freshmen said white
haired, rosy faced old New Yorker in
the parlor of a big athletic club the
other night to Tribune reporter
"but my mind reverts at once to q
hazinp scrape got myself into in my
salad days. Like all sophomores l
was particularly intolerant of fresh
men-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 expul-
sion, 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 pre-
suming to come to 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 freshman and do him up with
out unnecessary fuss.
awe had operated successfully on
two or three men, only one in night,
and were enjoying the sport thorough
". The following night it became the
turn of long, rawboned man 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 anticipated
some rare sport with him, and l re-
member now the naughty feeling with
which strobe into his dark bedcham-
ber, at the head of our gang, after we
had pried his door open with one good
twist of real burglars Jimmy
"The other men had generally cow
cred under their bedclothes or arisen
tremblingly in their nightshirts, 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 sound, as
he moved about in the dark; but, oh
nv! how he did swat us! I never
before experienced such hendish
strength as that fellow seemed to have.
We we're 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 triphammer. He seemed to have
a cats sight, and he knew the room
thoroughly, and the way he damned
us so unexpected that we got confused
and lost our reckoning in trying to
get out of the internal room again.
"I don't believe one Of US hit him
once. know that after had caught a
terrific right handler on the tip of my
nv nose, which sent me backwards over
an awfully angular coal scuttle, kept
on my hands anG knees, and wabbled
about in blind search for the door with
the blood pouring into my mouth and
over nv shirt-front. He hit US with
his fists like hams, he threw chairs at
us, he kicked US when we went down,
with his bare toes, which seemed as
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our hair out, he scratched US, he loos-
ened our teeth, he broke our noses, ne
joggled our most internal organs, he
utterly demoralized US, this whirl-
wind from Maine; and when at last
we all got out of this horrid den, more
dead than alive, and had had time to
collect our shattered senses and make
a hasty estimate of our cuts and abra'
sions, I said
1.-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 hazin's heaps OF
fun
"But we decided that the sport was
unmanly, anyway, and not the proper
sort of thing for gentlemen to engage
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