Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1915 — Boys Got Off With a Single Day’s Suspension. [ARTICLE]

Boys Got Off With a Single Day’s Suspension.

Twenty-six boys are today having an enforced vacation from school because of their participation in a hazing party last Friday night when the freshman class was havnig its annual party at the school house. Many of the boys in the suspended list had very little to do with the ungentlemanly features of the hazing, but the discipline is enforced in an effort to establish the fact that visiting the school house after school hours in an effort to annoy any who may be there on authorized reasons is frowned upon by the teachers, the school board and the public. That they were let off very lightly is certain, and instead of punishment the day’s holiday is 'being enjoyed by many of them. It is hoped that the young men, all of whom are manly boys on almost all occasions will accept the light punishment as an expression of the confidence the teachers have in them and that they will prove their appreciation by never again participating in any form of school hazing.