Show NO O colm O i The Tho outcome of ot tho the trouble at nt West WestPoint WestPoint Point whereby hazing has been abol abolIshed abolIshed at nt that military school Is 19 saIls satis satisfactory factory to the tho general public Much In Indignation was aroused by the revelations revelations made mado during the Investigation of ot I tho the Booz Dooz case and It Is I evident that I the tho only safe sato course courso for tor the arid and students at ot tho tire academy to pursue was waa tho tire one they have hao chosen to submit to the popular demand demond and abandon an obnoxious practice Army officers explain how irow hazing became In vogue at nt the tire academy They fhe say In tire the earlier days Ilas It was the tire school to which chiefly sons sonK of ot tire the so 80 called upper tipper classes clauses were asere sent In hr these formed a class by IJ themselves and an anthe the tire less lesa aristocratic cadets were treated with contempt Tho Tire latter hatter then were gradually driven to adopt some measure of oC and thus hazing was born It la Is It believed by the defenders of or the brutal custom that It line has had hadIn ha In beneficial b effects and mid that flaW West WestPoint Point and Annapolis are arc the only on Amer American Amerlean lean ican educational Institutions where birth wealth and ami family faintly rank do rho not form torm a n basis has II of ot class distinction the students To Illustrate the tire situation It Is III point pointed ed rd out that while ashlie In civil colleges sorts nans or of millionaires occupy apartments the furnishing of ot which costs cost thousands of ot dollars at ut West Point tire the cadet no matter what his social antecedents may be has ban tire tile most sImple quarters Ills furniture Is Iii a 1 battered table that may have done llono service at nt Loots Lees time a ii chair with tire the Initials of oC members of ot twenty classes cut Into It an all Iron bed bcd u a pine washstand a 1 wooden bucket and a wash bowl He lIe must not hang any pictures on tho tiro walls avails nor put nary any nn carpets on tho the Moor hoer Social dig die distinctions are thus titus obliterated and haz hoz hazing hazIng ing Inu linn hal been resorted to to do the rest Generally this treatment Is given to cadets who wIno come como to the tire academy with the Idea Iden that lint they arc are Alexanders prepared to take taka command of oC their tel fel fellow low students amid they the are as a rule not irot done with until they tire the tire content to hold halll a n place as aB privates In the rear ranks lint Hut even een when this other stale side of the story l 18 s heard hear It must bo be admitted that tho the practice complained of ot Is 19 unworthy of ot nn an American Institution the object of ot which Is 18 to develop the gentlemanly qualities of ot those hose Who vho attend It It Is not riot denied that refined cruelty lifts lanai hn been practiced It has been shown drown that stu students dents dunt havo been lIeen Injured for tor life lite rind and anI that deaths have hae been traced to the treatment received there What possible ble ide defense there can be bo for Tor such lIuch conduct con conduct conduct duct anywhere In hr the tho civilized world Is la lahard Ishon hard hon to perceive There are plenty of ot young men In Inthis InthIs this country countr manly inanity strong and willing willingto to commence a 1 military career If It some sonne of at the West Point cadets are weaklings s cowards thieves and sneaks and proper for Cor discipline by tire the students who have ha vo pa 10 authority over Oer them they would better be 1 e sent lent home In order that their places may be filled by others more worthy worth of ot a place In such an nn In Institution There are It seems sCorns enough outrages committed on the scenes of ot actual artal though barbarous conduct con conduct duct Is certainly not a necessary clement of at training Jar for the art ot of warfare |