The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-24
TRUCE WAS
 DECLARED Faculty Adopts Hazing
 Rules. RESULT OF GOULD AFFAIR Students Will Prohibit 0bnox-
 ious Hazing.
RESULT OF COULD AFFAIR
sophomores HeId Mass IGesting - which Entire TAird Class sf Cs- lumbia University Threaten-
 cd to 0uat College.

been arranged between the faculty Of Columbia University and the Sopho- more class, which resented the sus-s pension of four of their number for participation in the Kingdom Gould hazing affair, and which had threat ened to quit the University in body.
 The student board, represented by the presidents of the various classes. both college and science, met Dean Hutton today to discuss the suspension of the four sopnomores. Their decis- ion, which was announced. that sus- .psnsion will be left primarily in the hands of the student board.
 The conditions under which this was arranged are:
 First-The student board will pro- h1bit haztng in obnoxious forms.
 Second--Freshmen will be under tho surveillance of the sophomores.
 Third--Any case of 'frsshness' Of the under classmen will be brought to the attention of the board and they will serve notice on the student that his actions have aroused the animosity of the sophomores and they will fix . penalty which he must pay. r Fourth--There will be an under class fight and the winners will havN the right to summon the officers of the defeated class to appear at their din- ner.
 This last is expected to do away with the capturing of freshmen by the second year men.
 President Butler held a conferences with Dean Hutton of the School of Applied Sciences early in the day, af- ter which the suspensions were an- nounced. They were in conference until noon.
 Immediately after their conferences the student body held it's protestine mass meeting at Earl Hall. About 500 students attended and expressed their disapproval of the action of the faculty.
 Dean Hutton and the faculty of the School of Applied Sciences of Colum- bfa University. have suspended four sophomores who attempted to capture Kingdom Gould. The suspension is to last until after the mid-year examina- tions in February. The men discip- lined are: A. A. Gelthinger, A. Doty. R. W. Cauchois and W. Sinch. The sophomore class will hold meeting to take action on the matter and the report is that they will go on strike. The freshman class also is very much stirred up about the matter and also will meet to protest against the sus- pension of the sophomores.
 A mass meeting of all classes of tho University, consisting of over 800 men. was held in Earl Hall this afternoon to take action on the suspension by the faculty. The meeting was presided over by Duncan Fl. Browne. President of the college seniors. He presented a motion from the Board of Students representatives to the effect that the faculty be petitioned to retnstate the men suspended. The motion was car ried unanimously and all present sign- ed a written statement of 1t. which Is to be presented by the student board to Dean Hutton.
 President Brown cautioned the men present to keep cool, and not to gossip about the matter. and he expressed the opinion that the faculty would agree to the request and would reinstate the men.
 A formal statement was issued today by President Nicholas Murray Butler in announcing the suspensions dealt at length with the enforcement of cof- lege discipline at Columbia. In this connection the statement said:
 'The University will not permit to pass unnoticed any annoyance of an individual student or any attack upon him by a committee or group of other students, whether this goes by the name of hazing or otherwise. There is an elaborate code of rules at Columbia, the violation of any one of which will subject the offender to academic disci- pline.
 Every student Is treated as gentle man, and Is expected to conduct him. self as a gentleman. Wherever case has been reported which involves the persecution of any individual fresh man by a group of sophomores who could be identified. academic discipline has followed and will follow with in- creasing severity until the practice Is stopped" .