Word: molestation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Amherst sophomores at a recent class meeting voted to allow the freshmen to carry canes if they chose. and not to molest them in any way. This vote meets with the most cordial approval of the faculty, and President Seelye expressed himself highly gratified that the sophomore class of Amherst College should take the initiatory step toward a reform in the old and barbarous custom of hazing freshmen. The president considers the action as an outcome of the present system of government practised there, and thinks that the other colleges will follow the precedent established by the class...
...that the impression conveyed by the semi-official announcement is not altogether correct, and that the college authorities will not undertake to interfere in any way with the entertainment provided at the reunions of the different classes. So the alumni can indulge themselves as of yore, with none to molest or make them afraid. The only change in the programme this year will be the omission of the entertainment usually provided for the graduating class by the class next preceding it; and with this part of the festivities omitted, there is little probability that there will be any occasion...
...spirit of having seems to have entirely died out at Yale. No cases have been reported as yet, and the sophomores have shown no disposition to molest the freshmen so long as they observe time-honored customs...