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Hazing At The Agricultural College

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Day
19
Month
October
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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No more hazing nt tlie MioMfM Agriultural College? Don't deceive yourself. It i -i true that the students will tell you liey rejrnrd hazing asa relie of barhaiism mi that tlie college is being rapidly rou jr li t out f rom mider its iinholy iiitlnuce, but they are ocasional ly swept back uto llu' inidille of tlie current of b.ubar8IU in a very appalling raunner. The urrent invariably displays lts dizziest egree of rnpidity iit tlie beginning of the ¦hooi year, and during the last few weeks matters have bcvli lurldly interestng at the college. Freshman life haa liad ts drawbacks. A time-honored custom liikea the freshmen the natural victims I the aophomores for hazing purposes, ml au equally respected custom presents ie seniora as the allies of the sophs and lejuniors as the friends of the downrodden freshman. That clothes the proeedings with peculiar inteie-t. There is one poiut In hazing recrentlons uit has never been overstepped ut the kollege. No M. A. O. man has descended O the brutalily of tossiug bil victim in a lanUet. Water is the great standby. The iversity of uses to which the fluid can be uit for purposes of torture is really astonshing. For instaure, one night last week freshman was put under au improvised towei' liath, a toothpick was placed in ich hand and he was compelled to pull or the shoip. Holding the victim vader ie pump while a smal I etream ut' icy-cold uid is torced down his spinal column is ie favorite method of applying the vater cuie, and next to it in poiut of poplarity is the custom of throwing bucketul after bucketful of water thtaagb tlie runsom tarta the room of somc ua happy rcslnnan. Three years ago a student suspeeted of lavin" turned informcr was pulled trom lis bed and dragged through the (Vdar iver. Tlio little incident led to the sustension of eight students, nnd tluew a all of gloom over tliis fonn ot the luiusement. A good deal of enthiisiasm in ie past that has been vented in linzinj; ie new members has been relieveil by emonstrations against obuoxious profesrs. In one of the most uniue of these ie class of '86, which has the must proounced record for hazing of any and was nally suspenden bodily, took a star part. For 15 minuU'8onenioining a mostastonishinjt and death-like silence relgnud in the lecture room of the hated professor. Then an alarm clock adroitly placed near liim crealeü an unearlhly racket, the table behiiul whlch the instructor biit was jerked iuto the mlddle Of the loom by meaus of a strinir attachment, giant torpedoes cxplodrd abom hls ean, and the class-room was a bedlam tor several minutes, ycl soskillfully was the outbreaU managed that every man in the room wore an air of child like inuocence throttgh it all.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News