Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-21

~ AY, do you remember the rumpus
that was kicked up just before
Christmas when some Columbia
sophs tried to extend an invita-
ton to that fresh Could Kid to attend
their dlnnor2 Well, what do you thInk2
A lot OF people who never went 10 COL
lege and all the fond parents Of NAM
ma-boys have been going around ever
since saying what an awful thing haz-
lrg 49, and II ought TO be stopped and
he authorities are stony-hearted 70 let
b go on, and we sophs are just the
nruelest, most impolito boys in the
World. SO there
Say, they don't know what they're
talking about, and, what's more they
wouldn't be talking now II the sophs
bad tried TO take any other freshie but
young Could That's right Just be-
cause It was Gould, everybody In the
land talked. They wouldn't have
heard a word about the rumpus II the
freshman had been Jones or Smith,
OF some other unhoard-of greeuic.
Wen, that's on the side. What !
want to say Is, that hazlng Is All right,
and n the solicltous parents Of MANI
ma-boys only knew Il, hazing, aB con-
Quoted on the lines laid down by
sophom0res, has made a man Of many
n freshman who, when he left home
would have jumped half way out Of
his skin and yelled Mammal II you
had said Boo" 10 him In broad day
light.
DOES 1T MAKE MEN7
lIazing is good for lot Of other
things, too but first let me show you
what ] mean when ] say It's fine for
making over mamma-boys into men.
There was kid entered college
with me last year who was lust about
the sweetest little lady you've ever
laid eyes on. Why once when we'd
proposed to paint the college fence
at night with our class colors and
year, he got up In meeting and said,
in just the loyelcst voice imaginable:
Mother told me not to break any
of the college rules, and / fear IN be
breaking a college rule II ] help you
paint the fence, So ! hone you'll ex-
ouse me and let me stay In my room
tonight"
Mother said what does mother
know about college rules2 Why, n
we hadn't painted that fence, we'd
have broken q college tradition, and
disgraced ourselves In the eyes Of the
whole student body and the faculty,
too. Say, do you know that the
'profs," who do an awful lot Of talk
ing about hazing for effect, while they
wink The other eye at u.s. are every
bit as great suckers for tradition
as we are? That's right Corner one
OF 'em with this accusation and SEQ
what he'll say III bet he'll say some.
thing after the style Of PreNie Butler
Of Columbia when he was asked
about that Gould rumpus. lie said
ha2ing was all right but the boys
ought TO keep II from the public, or
words to that effect
But about that mamma boy. lie
sealed his fate then and there, did
Miss Myers. That night a half dozen
Of us. who felt ourselves particularly
disgraced by having such a nice little
lady among as. and not caring 10
wait until the sophs went TO Miss
Myers room, got through the door
by putting our combined weight
against Il. persuaded the frightened
Kid 90 arise from his couch and then,
seating him ON the table beside his
students lamp handed him what the
woman we bought Il of said was a
stamped rose pattern cenier-piece. and
thread aud needle, aud tod him 10 get
TO work Ike the good lille girl he was
crosses" UNTIL MIDNIGHT
He got 10 work It took him ten
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