Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-04-22
Humorous department.
HEAPS OF FUND IN HAZING.


II never read accounts in the news
papers of the pranks of college boys in
shazing' the freshmen" said white
haired, osy-face old New Yorker in
the parlor of big athletic club the
other night to Tribune reporter, "bu'
nv mind reverts at once to hazlng
scrape I got myself into in my salad
days. Like all sophomores l was par
ticularly intolerant of 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 a doz'
en- adventurous souls who were willing
to take the risk in order to punish the
freshmen properly for daring to live
and presuming 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 a descent
on some lonely freshman and do him
up without unnecessary fuss.
awe had operated successfully on
two or three men only in a night, and
were enjoying the sport thoroughly
The following night il became the turn
of a 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 | remember now the naughty
feeling with which I 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
"The other men had generally cow
cred under their bed clothes or arisen
tremblingly in their night-shirts, and
asked piteously to be let alone. Ihls
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, OBJ
myl how be did swat US! l never
before experienced such fendish
strength as that fellow 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 triphammer. 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 the Internal room again.
81 don't believe one of US hit him once.
I know that after / had caught terrlf-
ic right handler on the tip of my nose,
which sent me backward over an aw-
fully angular coal scuttle, I kept on
my hands and knees, and waboled
about in blind search for the door,
with the blood pouring into my mouth
and over my shirt-front. He hit US
with his fst-like hams, he threw
chairs at us, he kicked us when we
went down, with is bare toes, which
seemed as hard as iron he mauled US,
be pulled our hair out, he scratched
us, he loosened our teeth, be broke
our noses, he joggled our most inter-
nal organs, he utterly demoralized u.s.,
this whirlwind 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 hasty estimate of our cuts
and abrasions, said:
"sThe 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 60 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
in"