The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-05
rse 70 END HAZiNG

-,t. In View President Winston
freshmen and SoDhomores
70 rnsa=e in ~i"s''es' Which Be-
Slug2ing Matches in Which
u.bcr. are Injured in Fighting IL
-. and Last Night the Seniors
,ate.fed Against a Continuance,
saps That the Free-for-AIl Fights
Rrntal. are Detrimental to the
ogsgc and Give Opportunity for
,..ir Tactics in STRIKING Exhausted
usn or From Behind,
o,oken noses, blackened eyes and
.r hru. as are incidents in the Off
rrr endorsed fights en- masse in the
~ IT the A. and M. College between
T.. freshmen class and the Sopho-
I'VE class Y hich low occur daily,
|~,-s..1ent w -ston having given his
emission for the class fights, while
lieutenant J. S. e. Young, the COM
~u.r5art. Is present in order to see
.t.t no undue advantage is taken.
ruiee these class fights have taken
,,.oe and the second Of these yes
,s,3av there were a hundred and thir-
= cadets engaged, siAty-fve Fresh
~, and sixty-hve Sophomores-
rba Two opposing forces formed in
mas on the A and NJ. Athletic Field,
then rushed at each other. As
closed in there was indiscrinipate
pushing. jostling, punching. a
sg,lar Donnybrook Fair event
the Shillelahs, but fists yer
freely. After the first rush sin
nan was down Lieutenant Young, or
Of the Junior and Senior man.
of whom were in uniform,
rapld rush in and stop the scrapping
u the ground.
twelve minutes and was a hard
ought one, though the cadets, injured
u uninjured, emerged from it in good
7ints and with cheers, neither side
,a5ing conquered, the contest being.
pretty even one. As one Of the re-
the noses of two men, Anthony,
+ shelby, and Wilson, are broken,
there is a report that two other
uses are y the same shape, while
are are some black eyes and
aces also in evidence The
Ea.y ar Of fighting II the open" has
I1.5..L W.ta It injuries which are not
ai1y1d BY the injured, but the me-.
gt5 Engaged J.. the scrapping did SO
t:.t.. OWc accord, ard some Of them
Ge II tho hospital as q result.
These free-fo--au encounters, count
4Gced by President Winston and the
NA:a, came as a result of the de-
te 3 put a stop TO hnzing of any
lind Recently Cadet Hewlett, a new
nan was badly h>ndled and his head
1aVed by Sophomores, presumably,
md President Winston addressed the
aiets about this affair In which he
the method of the hazing
I one man by a number, mo COM
1ended an open, fair encounter with
Ut animosity, that it would be much
for the boys to line up in the
Fashioned way, and going at each
her to settle the matter, in place of
number hurrying around in the
TX to do some act of meanness. In
Of the matter OF the first
he afterwards stated that
Juniors and Seniors were present
see that fair play went on and that
Young was present to
: that things did not get too rough.
the result of President Winston's
X the Sophomores on Wednesday
It a note to Commandant Young,
ned K. K. x, requesting him at
lner to give notice to the Freshmen
1t they were invited to meet the
after dinner on the Ath-
C Field. The Sophomores were
re, the Freshmen came and the
test waged vigorously as line
he'd into line, in the mix-up legs
| arms and heads and bodies get
3 all together, the struggling mass
young men raising the dust might
Cheering the contestants We're
ne ESQ cadets who looked on with
)uts Of delight, while as each com
-ant had his dose he CRIED enough
was out of 1t.
Yesterday the challenge came from