The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-02
HAZ|NC MUST CD
Four Students Sent Home
From the A. & Nj.
College.
President Winston >pcak- strongly
AGAINST Thi> spirit Of l-awiS~>-
mes and ErutaliN-Iow Iia<-
in. in our Colleges Can
Id SupIF Il.

hc Suppressed.
Four members II the Sapnanore
class have. been dismissed from tA,
i. and y. Coles, for hazins Fresh
men. The faculty took summary ac-
ton i'm their ease. +0r the ~. re-
solved L. put down aazihE II p
cost. The \. and II college Is 4 H~"
institution and the practice VI Hazia-
mas not been firmly Established there,
The faculty are unanimous ssnd uh-
aIteIabIe in the determination that
tnis evil shall not become a Iee'gn3H-
ed custom in this college
The young men dismissed Neit
guilt 81 the offcusa # making FRESH
.aea wait on chem. bring water. make
up beds. sweep u rooms. etc. Ia
students OF the college. as q part of
lheir training, are required 10 wait oI'
themselves. cleaning "a tne5I own
rooms and performing other like ser
ices. some OF the N~o1h"la'f,s nav"
recently turl.d over these services 10
Freshmen Whoul fhe& require - al
tend Upon them and their rooms. Tn"
readers II Tom Brown al kuSuE
Win doubtless recall a similar system
Of Tagging which prevailed in Eng
land 4 century or more but TINS
is q new custom for American co.,
leges and not likelf 10 be out up
with either ny COLLEGE faculties ur by
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custom exists in certain high schools
ana academies in North Carolina
where THE larger BOYS bully the small
er and make them wait on them like
on being asked what the attitude
Of the college authorities is in regard
TO ha2ing. President Winston said last
night:
I'VE are unalterably opposed to
hazinS III any manner, shape OF form.
1t is a brutal, delnoralizing. unmanly
practice, unworthy Of Il gentleman
either TO 90 it or 10 bear it. 1t hui
initiates any man either to haze or
to be hazed. lowering his self-respeCt
and real manlineSs. There is no
place for ha2ing in the y. and NJ. Col
Ie@e. Our students as a body do not
favor il. Nearly ali of them are at
the college for an earnest. manly pun
pose. Most of them are paying their
own expenses either wholly on in
part. and many % them are support
ing themselves entirely by labor even
while studying. There are not fifty
boys IN the college who came for the
fashion of coming, or for the gentility
Of ii, OF merely 20 spend money and
nave Z good time. Anon such q
body of young men haZin2. Of course,
Is entirely out of place. There are
not oVer twenty-five m@n in the col
le@e who really favor hazing. and all
the mischief Of this sort is due either
Viii go - ~ ~ 49, ~ - 1880 ~
OF these Mcnty-Gve.
"Ha2ing must be StoDped, and ii
can be stopped like any other laWless-
ness. 1t Is the worst cyl! in college
life today. This form of laWleSsness
can be dealt With III colleges by the
same agencies and III the same man
ner that other JaWlessness is dealt
with in the larger world, and me-
easily and more successfully, because
the community is smaller, more COM
,l0rt an1 nlaIa . aciIn. rAntrnlIa1 shan
the larger community outside Of col
Iegc wis.
"A college is a 1.-THE world in train
ing for the bigger world. 1t is q lit
select teachers seeking to discover
paths of ono and usefulness IN life
and 90 be trained to follow them. The
little college world can not afford to
nave ideals less manly, less honorable.
less noble than the big. rough outside
world of business.
Three agencies are responsible for
hazing in our schools and colleges.
Just as three agencies are responsible
for lawlessness in the big world. to-
Wit: Cd Governing bodies of legal au- |
thoritieS. CD Public sentiment: go
The victims OF the hazing or laWless-
ness.
THE governing body or leaal au-
thOrity always has q duty to perform.
1T must instruct and lead pubic sen
III IL III ~ GN.iNt N'hIA
sci, bGt by enforcing the law and By
administering punishment when nee
eSsary with iirmness, certainty and
courage.
Public sentiment should sustain
IaWlessness, informing on it, ana
making its existence d stencil in the
n~ostrils of al decent people.
The victims Of lawlessness, whether
in college on out. should defend
themselves. II they are to he beaten.
kicked around, and Inundated. let it
be after manly resistance.
There IS no such thing as mild
hazing' OF voluntary hazing.' This is
q school and college Joke 1T for the
Horse Marines or other idiots to
swallow. Any haZing leads TO rough |
ness. and roGghness to violence, and
violence to occasional tragedies. Al!
college men understand this. When
ever q manly fellow refuses to submit |
tries and ~jocu!ar amenities OF his
~tOrInentorS and declines TO do the
mild things which they order him to
do. the young ruaians teach him q
lesson by banding together, attacking /
him in the night, and giving him such
q dose of brutality IS viii teach him
hereafter how to be pleasant and
happy when they come around again
with a dose of mild hazing.'
The \. and ". College is too busy
for this sort OF fGetishneSS. childish
ness. roWdNiSTH, and iGiOtic brutality
The truth IS that the custom Of haz-
ing no longer exists At first class in
stitutions. 1t Is . distinct sign Of IN
ferioIity. Of second-ratoness, either in
the institution or in the Young men
attending it. 1t mean Il low glade
of conduct and Of ana a
poor standard not only of gentleman
illness. but also OF common sense
"IIazinc must 90 from AL the col
!eopN. OR. fhey will forfeit n,tIIi4 .1,,
iidcnc" end patronage"