Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1905-1906, 1906-02-05
NEW YORK CLUB OF WOMEN
FRAMING A BILL FOR CON-
GREss.
COVER RECENT DISCLOSURES
Made in Regard to Practice In Amer
lean Colleges-So Suggest
Better Home Training.

New York, Feb. 4.-Women Of the
Minerva Club are working to have
hazing abolished in colleges. They
have obtained endorsements from the
presidents of almost all the promi-
nent universities in the country and
are now framing bill making haz-
ing crime. They hope to have it
introduced in Congress at this ses-
sion.
While approving the movement
and giving their signatures to the
clubs resolution, several university
heads suggested that the surest way
Of eliminating brutality from college
life is to have gentleness by mothers
in the home.
From DIR. Arthur 7. Hadley, presi-
dent Of Yale, this letter of indorse-
ment was received by Mrs. William
Brewster Miller, corresponding sec
rotary of the club:
eve are very glad to say that
physical cruelty in the form of haz-
ing has been long ago abolished at
Yale, by the voluntary action Of the
students themselves. And in these
circumstances it seems hardly neces-
sary to pass any vote in the matter,
since the passing of a vote to con-
denim these practices might be con-
strued as indicating that such prac-
tees prevailed here.
Sin regard to athletics, we have
always taken a good deal of care of
our men and have been singularly
free from serious accidents. The
dangers and abuses, however, which
have existed in other institutions
make us ready to cooperate in all
intelligent movements for athletic re-
forms.'
That the checking of hazing lies
with the parents of the students is
the opinion given in a letter from
William F. Pierce, president of Ken
yon College, Gambler, Ohio, the insti-
tuition attended by Stuart Pierson,
who was killed by train. / was
said he was tied to the tracks by stu
dents. Mr.. Pierce said:
"The proper remedy lies not in an
appeal to college faculties to forbid
such practices, for prohibition is
often merely negative and external
matter, but in an appeal to the moth
ers of the land to inculcate humane
and gentlemanly principles, which
shall act as our inward and COM
polling law upon young men in our
institutions. If parents are unable
to bring up their sons to a proper
horror of cruelty, brutality and tyr
amy they can hardly hope that col
lege faculties will find it possible to
transform the sons, grown almost to-
manhood.
eff the resolutions have any con-
nection with the death Of Stuart
Pierson, at Kenyon, allow me to say
that that unhappy accident, had
nothing whatever to do with cruel
practices or with any form of haz-
ing"
E. D. Warfeld, president of Lafay-
cite College, of Easton, Pa, says:
"All such practices are less the
fault of the institutions and govern
ing bodies than the homes from
which our students come. The decay
of homeife and want Of early incul-
cations in our boys Of those gentler
principles of Christianity best taught
by mothers is a saddening circum-
stance. The greatest obstacle / met
with was a want of support both
from the parents of those who came
under discipline and of the other stu
dents in college.
From DR.. Butler, of Columbia, a
letter of thanks was received, and al
so his opinion on hazing recently Civ
en- to the student body,
Only one college president admit
ted that hazing was carried on with
the consent of the faculty. David
c. Barrow, dean of the University of
Georgia, says:
cat present hazing in this univer-
sity is restricted to certain horse
play contests between the two young
err classes. / know, however, that at
any time our students. may conclude
it is good form tot olloy the example
of other colleges and universities. I
am highly gratified to find that the
Minerva club is moving in the direc-
lion Of q wise and healthy sentiment