The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-08
D|DN' 7 MEET
DR.. Winston Takes Sen
Tors Strongly in Hand
Issue of Liberty.

The A. and M. College Seniors, who
are aggrieved at the rule recently in
augurated at the college preventing
them from visiting the city without
permission except on Friday even
ings, Saturday afternoons and Sum
DAYS. were to have met last night
with the Junior and Sophomore
classes to take action towards forcing
the authorities to withdraw their
ruling.
Instead of this Dr. Winston called
the Senior Glass together, addressed
them briefly and ordered them to
their rooms.
After the meeting the students
tried to meet in the hall. but were
again confronted by the President
who told them that if they did not
dispense he would expel the entire
crowd.
Upon this the students scattered to
their rooms and quiet fell upon the
college.
The contention between the stud
ents and faculty grows out OF pr1Vl-
leges which have been taken from
the Seniors, and from the lnclplent
development of haZing on the part
OF tho SODfOfnOIeS
Last year the Seniors were per-
mitted to visit the city at will, but
now their only peculiar privilege Is
the Friday night outing.
When the boys were informed or
the change, they ragged, met and de-
clared that they would leave the Col
lege in a body. In this determination
they were to be backed by the other
two classes had not the President
spiked their guns.
Some of them said last night, how
ever, that they would meet again to-
day and, if the class was willing to
hold out" would resign" their
offices in the battalion and leave the
college.
Besides the complaint of the
Seniors, the SophomOres are angry
at the expulsion several days ago of
one of their number for hazing. and
the Juniors are standing by the
higher class with the idea of preServ-
ing their dignity year.
1.-THE class has gone too far to back
out now" said a senior last night
land if the rule is not rescinded we
will leave
DIR. Winston's Statement.
President Winston was seen last
night:
rms Is q lfl1lllaTN CODCSS, ocilu liz,
land it is going to be run on military
The discipline instead of
being lightened is to be intensified.
The boys at the A. & M. have to work
in the day and they cannot study salts
factorily except at night. Considering
the distance of the college from town,
the students will not be allowed to visit
the city except at such times as they
have no work to do. | told the Senior
Glass that they had no business to be
meeting as a class to complain or
leaving college as a class, and | advis
ed them that they had better hear
from their parents before they left.
of course any individual who doesnt
like the college can leave it; there are
plenty to take their places. l also
told them that the class would not be
permitted to meet during study hours"
AS to hazing, DR.. Winston stated
that it had never taken root at the
college and he didn't intend that it
should: that he would break it up if
he had to expel every boy in the col
Iege to do so. one haZer had been
caught and promptly expelled, and if
the trouble required others would fol-
low.
While he would not like to lose his
Senior Glass, DR.. Winston states that
the college is long on applicants, as
his notice that no more students can
be taken shows. OF course, if thirty
or forty leave he can take that many
more from the hundreds that are anX-
ious to come.
While the college boy is a great
hand at resolutions, his species is gem
orally lacking in the moral backbone
which makes a mass meeting effective.
The Senior Glass will probably remain
to tamely do their counting on Friday
nights.