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

II never read accounts in the news
paper, Of the franks Of college boys in
hazIng the freshmen said white
haired. rosy face old New Yorker in
T the parlor Of big athletic club the
: other night TO IL Ir,Lum reporter.
but my mind rcycrts at once to :.
hazlng scrapc got mysclf into in my
, salad days. Like all sophomorcs
I was particularly intolcrant Of fresh
men much more 50. Of course. than
the seniors. We had been strictly
forbidden by the faculty to do any
hazing at all under penalty Of cxpul-
sion, and SO we could not get together
more than half dozen adventurous
souls who wcic willing TO take the
risk in order to punish the freshmen
properly for daring to live and pre-
suning 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.
"Wc had operated successfully on
two or three men only III night, and
were enjoying the sport thoroughly.
The following night it 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 1 re-
member now the naughty feeling with
which | 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 burglars 8
jimmy
"The 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 word, he made not 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, end 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.
II don't believe one Of us hit him
once. 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, 1
kept on my hands and knees, and wab-
bled about in a blind search for the
door with the blood pouring into my
mouth and over my shirt-front. He
hit US with his 6st-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, he pulled our hair out, he
scratched us, he loosened our teeth,
he broke our noses, he joggled our
most internal organs. he utterly de-
moralized US, this whirlwind from
Maine; and when at last we ali got
out of this horrid den, more dead than
alive, aud had had time to collect our
shattered senses and make hasty
estimate of our cuts and abrasions, I
said:
"'The 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:
Nov 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
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