New-York tribune., 1905-11-19
.,own TO the Authorities
ea,e Lively Battles lake
place Among the Hish
Spirited Youngsters.

.ronr the midshipmen at Annapo,is -
Deah 80 Tbev are SO rampantly healtng'
rare -+ end stomach and liver ana
80 sou N +be other vital organs kept HI
lungs 81 ,-o,e glow by the regular haplts anu
such .hA life they are forced TO leau
eIele -, =. them one would think tnal lh's
thsi 'o- dipped in the fountain of perpe'u"i
are ,,;cb Ponce de Leon sought SO ri7'
!ou'H ~,n over by artillery carriages alio
Inc. che FIRST aid" men; they are rna"i9u
football field and BOD up as 'p
III ,.,s,,. they turn turtle in ro"iIs 'A0-
.sa1e ashore punning on the "e'hooS -,
sHs .srus Go down to seainallSiiAp
'4 a.ternoon and one will percila"0o
.r,e fifty feet off topsail yard car
oH' ,.rs- rigging. and just when you e1>p
to' - corne around with broom TO Sweep
ro-,aJns the MILDLY will jump up i"ue
-. ont of a coil of rope ..,o5
-. Anna polls has been genulhelS ''@- -
that one Of these young men haS Ni
h,ood clot on the brain causeo pS o'
80 excitement and effort attehulHs
-. with another midshipman- Is tue o-
On the history of the school III VINO" SUI
: tragedy has occurred. ,,,on N
mn. snirit that goads these young ihei-
-H .eso-r,,red combats is neither the pune
chin
snch duellist nor the mercenary, brutal spiiit
-, c,an,nion. Like gamecocks VIII
-. .,,,r,o one another. but it is al"ayS -
I..,. NJ ,or,etb,ng that they know of no other
ss''lo =. ..++,e Trained to fight for the ma
t,a very training makes them fight for
themselves TO-. +tese land
,-..,.s that was evolved during the old Gays
:. ho.inp Not that hazing has gone the way
!. .h, blessed for. like the nine lived cat 1t
,.,not be killed: but. that hazing, or runhlls
.s;, &c called. together with the hghung spirit
,s merely subdued to the modern clay II "oi No
IN Hence glimpse at the practice OIL haZllis
!. necessary to an understanding of the code'
UP TO DATE HAZING.
II any one thinks that hazing there cohsis's
IN hesying boys up in blankets. riding theiIl
it irving mem to cartracks and such
o,ber rough work ne must revise his noIlons'
,rh.t ;s nrecisely what it does not do. Inc
-o.nhers Of the lowest class are called 'plebes
IN. n.rt class -youngsters' The youngsters
ard occasionally the two upper classes haze the
'plsbes."
A strpling goes there from some hay ooor-
o,s Town Perhaps as d Candidate 1or en-
trance he is a modest fellow PeThaps not
The examining doctors thump him and kneeo
his muscles measure his swelling chest nave
lin tank up testing machines by the foots'
COX down his throat to see if his feet are EaI'
and finally-if he IS the sound man TO Two un-
sound ones-pass him through Now begins the
tempest TO his soul: Ever since his marvellous
genius earned him the honor Of spoutIng forth
~spartarus 10 The Ciladiators at the school
commencement back in Pinchem he's been Itch
ing and sweating o nights to display his enor-
s;ers" hear of all This; perhaps they get clip
ping rom The Pinchem Boomer from which
they learn tiat young Hiram Humper will, in
a few weeks oust Admiral Dewey and run the
na,, in true Pincheun style. If they do, their
:routls water No sooner has unsuspecting Hi
rin. in the Innocence OF his cornfed heart,
lonned his uniform and strutted forth like a
peacock than he is brought up with a round
turn by the following sample dialogue:
What's your name. mister The tone and
the ignorance of his illustrious name some
what d2mpen The ''plebe."
"Humper'
Humper? Humper Up and say Rumper
what?"
Hiram Humper."
Look here you 'galy specimen of 8 'plebe'."
shaking his fist in Hiram's startled face, you
put handle tc that, Humper. and say sir
when addressing an upper class man." So the
'plebe's' first lesson is to load his remarks TO
his superiors with words of respect and the
habit sticks to him he climbs from 'plebe to
admiral Of the feet. The best thing that has
coma 10 him, however, is that his head is be-
ginning to go down from the bigness OF cleo
uon night to the size OF the microbes snout Il.
IGNORANCE NO EXCUSE.
But the dialogue goes
What three large cities claim the honor OF
your BIRTH"
"New-York. sir. Chica go. sir. and Boston. sir