Show THE COLLEGE YOUTH EVERY few weeks during the autumn and early winter the wires delivered a message of some mad prank or outbreak of vand vandalism allem on the part of the lusty luety brawny boys who make up the population of the prominent eastern universities some times these exhibitions hibit ions ious are confined in their effects to the different class classes of the same or of rival institutions in which case came the victims are entitled to no sympathy since their voluntary participation involves the chance of their being worsted but more frequently it transpires that the enrolled and presumably educated gang carry their riotous behavior outside their own campus and seek sufferers from it in the ordinary avenues of life and among a less favored class of mankind thus for instance we read in a new haven paper of the ad that the night previous the yale freshmen carried their celebration to k such an extreme that they virtually broke up a play in the opera house they broke into a dime muse huseim m and played haloe with the proprietors proprietor Ps chattels they tried unsuccessfully to effect an entrance into the fair but were repulsed by a party of doorkeepers who armed with clubs and base ball buts bats drove them back one of the students receiving a wound on the neck by the blow of a shovel a restaurant was next visited by the he rowdies who overturned all the furniture and compelled a young woman to stand on a table and make a speech eng eor masse the freshmen then repaired to the campus and indulged la in a rush with the sophomores the celebration concluding by the freshmen breaking a number of windows in the old brick row J the jolly escapade being thus appropriately appropriated terminated so far as the gilded youth were concern edthe timorous onslaw law stepped in to the extent of causi nir the arrest of four of the party and this terrible punishment was to be supplemented so go the same paper informs us by an investigation of the matter by the college faculty the result of which it was believed would be a number of it seems to take a long time for the authorities of some of those towns and colleges to know when they have got enough of this sort of the mistake Is in looking charitably at it as nothing worse than a tough rough display of youthful enthusiasm where mis mischief chiet and not wilful injury to person or property to is the motive because for sooth the big boned hoodlums are fortunate enough to be able to attend ool college leg there appears to be a mortal lear dear of repressing their buoyancy of spirits approaching in some instances a feeling of beatific martyrdom in tan 9 made the victim of their jokes such imbecility to is difficult to understand in this part of the country or any other where the law has any meaning leanir g and aid can be impartially administered an offender against the cites peace and good order is none the less so because he be may figuratively wears wear a mortarboard and gown it if he is a brawler and a dee destroyer troyer of any citizen Ig peace or property he deR deserves erves punishment as much as the friendless tramp who engages in a like diversion the trouble doubtless arises from the almost insane devotion paid to athletic sports and achievements ju in all the leading institutions of learning where the stroke oar of the winning varsity crew or the strong limbed fellow who can unerringly kick a goal tor for his football team is of more consequence and obtains greater praise than the head man in the graduating class clas it is idle to expect that a physical OU out t burst bunt even though we wearing s ring all the attributes of a 4 riot will be sincerely condemned yet the evil is not without its imminent cure when it IS in final ry carried to excess a point that can call not be far in the future a sensible community duty duly mindful of the need of adequate bodily exercise to cool off the exuberant ardor of its pampered blons will gradually come to look with a favorable eye upon the efficacy of the bread and water diet and the hill chill seclusion of a prison cell en baricev by occasional enlivening ex peri ence with a treadmill or with 1 a sto on the public highway |