TALKS WITH A KID BROTHER
ON HAZING
So the Sophomores have been making it interesting for you, have they? I'm glad of it; that's one of the things you came to college for. You will agree with me after you get out, if not sooner. What's that? Well, let me illustrate.
Once upon a time during the old days of free, untrammelled hazing—real hazing, I mean, not mere persiflage and pamphlets containing formal Freshman-year restrictions—there was a certain professor's son. And he thought his father was a greater man than the President—the President of the college, I mean, for the president of the country was a mere Philistine and did not count. The son should not be blamed for this, because the father would have been inclined to agree with him. I should add that not all professors take themselves so hard. There is a system of hazing that goes on with them,
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