Show THA THAT T r HAZING From the Practical Student published at the Wesleyan University we get a full account of the recent hazing of juniors juni juni- ors at that institution It is gratifying gratifying- to learn that the outrage was not so bad badas as at first reported and above all that the i report t charging young women students I with like cruelty is almost if not wholly untrue But the action of the young men viewed in the most favorable light possible cannot be too strongly gly con con- on- on We give below an editorial from th the the l 1 Lantern which in addition to its vigorous vigor vigor- ous protest prote st against all such disgraceful conduct refutes the repeated oft charge that the influence of State universities because they are sectarian non-sectarian are not such as are likely to develop p high morality morality morality moral moral- ity and strength of character Ours is one of f the called so-called godless institutions The unjust charges of of- which the Lantern complains have been been- and are heaped upon us without stint therefore we we heartily endorse what the Lantern says and add our protest The following is the article Not only has the college world but the entire State and nation been recently shocked and horrified by the outrageous conduct of certain college men of Wittenburg and Ohio Wesleyan universities At the first institution a poor old helpless janitor was cruelly attacked in inthe inthe inthe the dark and most pitifully beaten at the second second second sec sec- ond ten Sophomores hazed hazed five Juniors The fiendish manner in which this was wal done is worthy of savagery The name of the the class class- fraternity and its diabolical signs were painted I on the faces o s by nitrate of silver it ti caused the most racking racking racking rack rack- so st strong r g that not t o only ly ing pa pains ns but in the case of one or two the po poor r fellows will have horrid disfigurations for life Is comment necessary When will college men men become civilized W When en will they ever give up these old barbarous practices When college fun cease to be brutal There is however just one thought we feel we ought to state State University men and women are forever being told that they are aft attending Godless ir immoral m al institutions j and by bi doing so they are told that they are endangering endangering endangering en en- t their r souls and receiving into their lives an influence which will always make for evil The religious college these critics oS say is the ideal place free from all these vices and surrounded by a Christian spirit of manly and womanly conduct But But what now can these critics sa say to these acts at Wittenburg and Ohio Wesleyan The truth is that these defamers of of State universities universities universities uni uni- are basing their attacks upon a hypothesis which does not hold in every case There is such a thing as carrying the doctrines of religion until they are only pretenses behind behind behind be be- hind which the heart is really wrong There is such a thing as too much discipline too many many rules of conduct too much dependence upon outward keeping of forms This is especially especially especially es es- true with young men and women Itis It Itis Itis is only where their government is broad and independent in spirit free from all trivial restraints and dependent solely upon their indi individual vid ual honor and honesty that they develop into proper self-control self and upright living The facts a at least would seem to uphold us in this Our State University has never been disgraced by its students as our more would be l religious neighbors ha have ve Without pretending L without without boasting are we not quite as Godly as as s they I |