Show 1 BARBAROUS HAZING That is a revolting story which comes to us through the daily press of outrages practiced upon students of an Ohio col col- lege First came the news of the branding branding branding brand brand- ing of several young men by their fellow students with lunar caustic and closely following it it-as it as if to over-flow over the measure measure measure meas meas- ure of horror the horror the account of a similar outrage perpetrated by young women upon students student of their own sex i iThe The practice of hazing even in its mildest mildest mildest mild mild- est forms forms- is a barbarous practice and sho should ld be frowned down by every college collegeman man and woman in the land It is a disgrace disgrace disgrace dis dis- grace to our civilization an institution too brutal to be ascribed to the most savage races of whom we have any knowledge for savages usually have some motive for their cruelty ty but here there seems to have been none w whatever two These et o revolting g stories Jori coming so 50 so S y t g e r ar beyond Greg beyond 1 ep ence We f hp Dope th y W P t f o or or-at or at t least greatly t exaggerated x gge t l. l If If h rP q u t ue r we c. c are r r rt to tobe g be e lieve liev that some sort of contagious in insanity nty must Pp t have Ko found 9 its way ya int into th that Ohio Phio y f college ll ge for we we are re loth th t to b li ve ration i human humanity ty c capable tf bl s such ch dem demons demon's s Work V We of f the wild and nd W Woolly ly West are lue often ch characterized ra te ze as being civilized Indeed we recognize the f fact cf th that f in r many ways we are are far beh behind rid ir 6 h fellow countrymen of the East but the mountain inter-mountain region with its reputation for capricious bullies and lawless desperadoes despera despera- does can furnish no parallel in cruelty to the refined barbarism of these cultured college students It is Jt-is is to be hoped that the growth of our educational institutions here in the extreme West Vest will be healthy enough to discard al all such practices as these that we shall be wise enough to weed out all such evil growths before they fasten themselves upon the roots of our institutions |