The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-03-12

students, most of whom are former service men, men who have been in France and in active service in the l regular navy, is embittered at the | sophomore class and contemplates i taking matters into its own hands to on the fair name of the university. | The faculty appears to be unable to put a stop to the practice, though l through the athletic director an ap- peal has been made to the sophomore i class to stop the ''razzooing' of the l freshmen or to confine it to a short period of the term. Earring and feathering'' is one of the most offensive of the stunts of the sophomore class, mostly composed of students somewhat younger than the men in the freshman class; a situa- ton brought about by the fact that the men now composing the fresh man class mostly have beeen in serv- Ice from a year to two years, while those of the sophomore class, being too young to get into active service, had to be content very largely with training in the & A T. C., or without having any nature of military service. The feature is the one that makes the majority of the freshman class resent the previously undasputed priv
 
 contemplate steps to prevent it. The ! freshmen say they have no real ob- jection to the sophomores induIging in some of the miIder forms of haz- ing, but do object greatly to the severer forms and to the undue con tinuance of them
 They point out that most colleges and universities have eliminated en- tireIy the tirne-h onpred custom of putting the freshmen classes through their stunts or have limited the Sc verity of them and the time in which the sCphomores may indulge them selves in the sport
 All attempts to modify the "cours- es of sprouts at Orono have thus far proved unavailing and unless the faculty which is now taking up the most recent abuses, the "tarrIng and !feathering'' of Ivan R PeaSe of Vii t ton, Me, and Leonard J. Bragdon Of Franklin, Me, goes to the bottom and netes out punishment to the perpe- trators of the offensive acts the fresh men fear that the 4trazzooing'' will continue throughout the term
 It was only recently that the sopho- mores dealt out punishment to Pease and Bragdon for alleged in fractions of sophomore rules,'' one  not associate under any conditions with young women attending the uni versity or with young women from Orono or elsewhere If they do they are subject to the punishment that the most vigilant leaders, regard as fitting to the crime
 Both Bragdon and PeaSe were in formed that they were ordered '~tar- red and feathered'' because they were found in the presence of young wo- men, students at the university
 Brag7pn was caught somewhat by accident The sophomores, it is said were Iayins for Pease, who was sus- pected of being out with a girl About midnight it is said that Bragdon re- turned to the university accompany ing a girl of the freshman class, only to fall into the clutches of the so- phomores looking for PeaSe-
 Not to be deprived of their fun af- ter they had made all arrangement for a '4tarrirgy and feathering'' bee they seized BragdOn and escorted hin to the basement of the Hanniba Hamlin dormitory. There they or dered him to strip Two other fresh men were pressed into service ant also ordered to shed their clothes
 Then they went through a sort O formality, one of the sophomore lead CTS making a speech intended to i'm press him with the seriousness of hi -'crine'' Then others made speeches and finally Bragdon was given tn privilege of the floor What he sai is not reported, but it was not any thing complimentary to the sophC more class
 Then a pan of molaSseS was pro duced and the other two freshme were ordered to dip in and plaste Bragdon with it That done the showered Bragdon with feathers prC cured from a pillow taken from th freshman dormitory, Oak Hall
 Then all the sophomores who wei present armed themselves wit weighty paddles, with holes bore through them to make them mol effective, and Bragdon was made sprint between lines of sophomore who fpadd1ed7' him in grand style he danced back and forth Aftt amusing themselves in this fashic until they got tired, they decided turn in for the night and turne Bragdon and the two unwilling fresl me loose, allowing them to remo7 the nolasses and feathers und shower baths
 The following night, sentence ha ing been imposed upon Pease in u meAnL1Ine on the charge O1 DSlIfS5 0 with a girl, they sWooped down up< Pease's room in Oak Hall at mi night, when he was sound asleep. I was ruthlessly ordered out and p | raded to the basement of Hannib Ham1in, where the procedure of u previous night was run 4hrous again Practically the same men wi imposed the "raZzoo" on Bragd' worked it on PeaSe-
 The next day, in a way of impres ing the freshmen with the fact,
 committee of sophomores visited t freshman dormitories and took a collection to pay for the molaSs
 used on these exploits.
 As a means of creating further fe
 of the authority of the sophomor
 the sophomores arranged to have D
 lures taken of the '+tarring and feat ering,'' and distributed them free
 about the university, some of the
 getting into the hands of the fem;
 students, and it is said that ma
 of them got much amusement poki
 fun at the unfortunate freshmen.
 It seems to have become a more
 less regular thing for the sophomo
 to "razzoo" the freshmen. Ann
 every week the entire freshman cl