The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-05-03
Heaps Of Fund in Hazing.

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papers Of the pranks Of college boys in
shazing the freshmen, said white
haired, rosy-face old New Yorker in
the parlor of a big athletic club the
! other night to Tribune reporter,
"but my mind reyerts at once to a
hazing scrape I got myself into in my
! salad days. Like all sophomores I
was particularly intolerant of fresh
men-much moro so, of course. than
the seniors. We hai 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 we've 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 cor
ridor, and then make descent on
some lonely freshmen and do him up
without unnecessary fuss.
'sWe had operated successfully on
! two or three men only in night, and
were enjoying the sport thoroughly.
The following night it became the
turn Of long, rawboned man from
Maine, who had little or nothing to
say 60 any one, and whose only care
seemed to be to keep his hands and
feet sout Of sight. We anticipated
some rare sport with him, and | re-
member 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 a real burglar 8
Jimmy.
ssThe other men had generally cow
cred under their bed clothes or arisen
trcmblingly 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 a word, he made not a sound, as
| he moved about in the dark; but, oh
my! how he did swat us! I never
before experienced such 6endish
| 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 slammed'
us was so unexpected that we got con-
fused and lost our reckoning in trying
to get vat Of the internal room again.
ssI don't believe one Of us hit him
once. know that after I had caught
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 wab-
bled 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 his bare toes,
which seemed as hard as iron; he
mauled US, be pulled our hair out, he
scratched us, he loosened our teeth,
he broke our noses, he joggled our
most internal organs, be utterly de
moralized US, this whirlwind from
Maine; and when at last we all got
out Of this horrid den, more dead chan
alive, and had had time to collect our
shattered senses and make hasty
estimate of our cuts and abrasions, /
said:
sssThe Maine fellow must have gone
out. boys, and left gorilla in his bed
instead.
"But just then we heard that vici-
GUS freshman, call out, with 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
in.
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