| Show cadet davis explains word flashed over the wires wires a few days ago that cadet davis an idaho boy in west point had been badly injured at the hands of higher class men during the hazing bazing hazin bazin in process we take from the malad enterprise a portion of a letter written in explanation of the affair aal air he says we were harassed and hazed from early morning until late at night and often the whole ardth 0 of the e night of course it was hard to bear but a person soon learns that the easiest way to get along is is to do whatever is told and take whatever I 1 is given without question I 1 11 do this at first in fact fact I 1 11 questioned everything every thins I 1 was waa told to do until one day I 1 made a 9 decided I 1 iland egand and refused to do adv i thing I 1 was told unless it came from proper authority in the I 1 eyes of the older cadets cabets this was wag such in an insult instill that I 1 could make right only by a fight I 1 was accordingly challen challenged 9 ed and of course accepted much as it was against my inclinations there much more to tell we fought and though I 1 did my best beat to uphold the honor boner of idaho in this as in all other matters there could be no question in the mind of anybody but that I 1 came out only second best I 1 ras not seriously injured a week in the hospital made me all right and fit for duty again the newspaper reports of this that appeared were all incorrect the matter nas N as promptly investigated by the authorities es and nay my opponent was punished bed by being reduced from a captaincy to the ranks the authorities are on the alert and are doing everything that can be done do ne to suppress hazing and protect the new men from annoyance in any form E G DAVIS |
