Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — Strong Words Against Hazing. [ARTICLE]

Strong Words Against Hazing.

Chancellor McCracken, in his owning address delivered In the chapel of New York University to more than 300 students, took occasion to rebuke the tendency of unruly college men to expend their surplus energies in lawlessness, and bullying underclassmen. On this line he said: “Possibly the formation of such clubs as I suggest may offer an outlet for the superfluous energy which -is overflowing 1“ college students at the beginning of the school year, especially among those who have just become sophomores. Such students often form clubs with the unavowed object of committing nets of a mischievous and sometimes criminal nature. From such organizations arise cases of attacks by a dozen stout fellows upon some solitary victim picked for hazing, or the destruction of public or private property. The best cVfib for such fellows as these is the man’s club, and the best meeting place the station house or the bar of the police judge.”