The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-26
From the San Francisco Chronicle

M N that's the end of all fun. She's O the most sober-sided creature who ever studied Greek, because she's either going to be taught to be a woman who wouldn't say "Darnl' over a burned fudge cooking, or she's training to be person of culture who could unhesitating- ly trace it's etymology if she did say 1t?
 Yes, indeedy it's sad, sad world for all such whose ambitions or parents have destined them to wear the laurels and conjugate amo. amavi, when all their | maiden impulses are for plain English and the thrilling translation that unusual | ly runs-"Kiss me again, Billy; I'm not angry"
 | Nothing to do but study; nothing to say but lessons; nothing to think but problems-and all for three or four long years, when you get your degree as maid of arts and are entitled to your | first care-free laugh.
 Was that a Wellesley girl who snick- cred. just then-or a Cornell coed? Or did it come from the high-bred nostrils of fair Bryn Mawr? No fun at a girls college?
 We'll maybe not the kind of rowdy slaughters that happen when there is bowl fight at one of the mems univer- sities, where they tear the pants off the enthusiastic participants and leave them particepes criminis, which signifies Eden- ike and ashamed But plenty of happy days just the,s
 4 Cornell co-ed's confessions would make interesting even thrilling, read | ing. Once, not very long ago, coed at | Cornell, of the communicative freshman age wrote to a dearest friend under the most awful secrecy, some of the things that happened to her when the bioodthirsty sophs hazed her. She said sho struck surprises, all right.
 Saturday night" the sophs notified them by invitations appallingly deco | rated that were foretastes of the wrath to come and by word of mouth so darkly | fearful that, ds the week wore on, not | few of the poor freshies were badly scared The one kindly hint urged them not to wear good dresses, but be prepared for the worst
 1 The freshman class, trembling but de- voted martyrs, assembled outside the gym door and were pnied apart in groups of five by welrG figures gowned In black, with masks and high-pointed hats to match Elcn scared quintet was led down the short flight of steps to the floor and to cruel mercies of a dozen green, red and black devils. who seized them and | pinched them and poked them, in the semi-darlSness, for all the lights were out except one, which, covered with green paper, gave the most uncanny glow imag gnable.
 The victims were forced to sit on the floor, while the devils howled and shrieked around them, infcting pokes on whichever freshman happened to be nearest.
 | Then the president of the sophomore class. logged out in sheets and carrying 1 A wailng black cat, made speech. Some | screens. that had hidden a portion of the room, were drawn away, to reval a | great cald,cne into which three witches were pouring lifeblood of a freshie who had been already sacrificed. while a large audience Of sister witches chanted ad- monitons to the scared freshies. and di- rected then attention to the fate of one
 
 4 sheet, dripped blood to beat the Prin- cess Larntalle. All at once the chanting. witches shrieked forth a narrowing "Amen!' and swoopen down on the freshles, bore them to a corner and made them sign the irrles in blood-at least that's what 1t ,ooEed like. They pledged themselves tlns:
 "i hereby solemnly swear and affirm to abide by these rules. If do not, may l share the fate of the bloody victim be- fore me:
 "When sophomore comes to my door will feed her
 "r will never fuss in Sage drawing room after 10 D. n.
 "I promise 10 hold a friendly conversa- ten with each professor at the end Of the l. ur for his good.
 | .I promise to become salted down within a reasonable length of time
 They were eustled over to another cor ner given q lantern to light their way tbro,sh' the dim halls of learning and some chewing gum to make them stick I to it. They were danced around once more; and tfen all the witches vanished in a yelling wtirl and the ordeal was over, : Every girls college has it's class rival.