New-York tribune., 1900-12-22
THE PASSING THRONG.

There has been a great amount os attention of
late attracted to the college practice of hazing."
said A NJ Spencer. of PhiladeI-
THE DECLINE phia. at the Hoffman House yes
OF HAzING terday. "The developments of the
IN COLLEGES. Booz court of inquiry at West
Point have caused wide comment.
Hazing has died out to a great extent in college
variety that would have found little or no favor
Win the previous generation. | am not sure that
the rough edges off calow Youth and II took extra
freshness out Of freshmen with the speed Of light
or bad points of man. and many youths stand
ing his eoege career bY the tepe or laeR Of il
that he displayed while being hazed. But boys will
try to outshine the other This Characteristic when
it came to hazing. led the hazers to go too far
man to such an extent as to lead the faculty to
take drastic action This has been the history @ OF
too much to the, hazed has finally brought the
ITO strip a man paint him delicate pea green
and exhibit him in a glass case to admiring upper
in and poisons it is likely to cause grief That
marked the ending of hazing in one Of the big
compelling him to sit astrde eth the bucket for sew
eraH wan hTus n Its close IN 06S & AND $50 so
Cured In one of the great collegiate societies
one week to the will of another. and do that 9th
er's bidding, be it what It may. When was in
big copper cent was stiii in circulation-we had
one of those unfortunate candidates with US one
when his mentor fshed of those giant copper
disks from his pocket and handed 1t to him, say
ing, Here m tired of carrying this around Go
get me check for it, "
"The unfortunate candidate accepted the coin
and disappeared. In a moment he was back, but
still with the coin, explaining that
ARGUMENTS they would not give him check
FOR AND for it. did not ask you whether
AGAINST they would check ii not
THE the cold response I told you to
PRACTICE. get a check for It. Now. go and
do it The others face fell, but
there nothing else for 1t he meekly and
obedientIy went off his masters bidding This
time he reappeared even more quickly, but he went
by our group on the run and made for the open
street at top speed. Behind him was the cause-a
large red headed belligerent Irishman. armed with
umbrella. The first application for check
had amused him, the second he was trying to re-
without further injury than complete loss OF
breath. 1t used to hurt men with their college
jurists when in college received warming that on the
following night the hazers would visit him. When
they arrived they found him in bed armed with
heavy army Colt revolver and holding in leash n
shot jaw, which greeted them with blood curdling
growls That hazing was postponed indefinitely
the upper class men and the members Of his own
class when the story got about. The practice has
all but died out now, and ii is probably WELL
for death and lasting injury have more than once
professor in a Southern college was once killed.
you know while attempting to interfere with a
and It is better for it to die out entirely than to
run the risk of fatality Yet on the other hand
when kept within bounds IL did good to the men.
teaching them self-reliance and quickly showing
the stuff of which new made There Is
much to be said both pro and con on the question
of hazing."