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...another that the practice of hazing had been broken up, it is his experience that they have, without exception, been mistaken. He says : "By repressive measures the evil has been at times restricted to its lowest limits, but has never been eradicated. Just the moment repression has ceased the brutal custom has sprung up with new features of brutality. While I do not favor threats to repress disorders or pledges iron cadets as a means of eradicating violations of the regulations. I am certain that the best means of maintaining discipline in any organization is the certainty of summary punishment...
...unable to return blows with any strength, if at all, it is neither an exhibition of pluck nor skill for the stronger to pound the one who cannot defend himself. Pluck and skill are what is sought after in these meetings, but not when they both degenerate into a brutal spectacle, there can be no pleasure in witnessing it. The only feeling in many are pity and disgust, instead of admiration for good athletics, and I think I voice the sentiments of a large number of men, when I say that boxing ought to be dropped from the contested events...
...boxing had been finished, the president of the Athletic Association made a short oration. We have unfortunately mislaid our stenographic report of this address, but its peroration was in substance as follows: 'Ladies and Gentlemen - The remaining events of our programme are a series of beastly, barbaric, brutal boxing bouts. Those who do not wish to see the bruised, battered, bleeding bodies of the boxers borne to their barracks will please withdraw during the intermission of five minutes now given for that purpose.'" The five minutes passed, but no one withdrew. "The moral of this incident," says the Times...
...recent 'Varsity game. The conduct of the Yale team, it cannot be denied, was in general ungentlemanly and altogether reprehensible. The conduct of the Yale papers since the game has been equally bad or even worse. But not all this, we think, affords our contemporary any justification for the brutal fashion in which it turns upon the visitors from Yale and dubbs them "Connecticut roughs." Bad as has been the conduct of Yale in this matter, and deserving of censure as the college may be for upholding and even praising the conduct of its team, we cannot without a protest...
...foot-ball field, adopt a rule requiring only one warning; thus the Yale rushers would not be allowed two warnings without punishment, or, in other words, they could not make two fouls without being disqualified. Some such method must be adopted. We can no longer meet Yale's brutal behavior in the mild, courteous spirit which we have hitherto shown. Neither do we wish to see fulfilled the prophesy of the Yale man, who said after the game Saturday, "You call our playing a mucker game, but you will have to come to it if you ever expect to beat...