Word: rowdyisms
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Indictments have been presented against twenty-three Princeton freshmen, for general rowdyism...
...Rowdyism among the Princeton students has recently taken on a reprehensible shape. A short time ago, in addition to cutting up other criminal pranks, those promising candidates for collegiate honors greased the rails of the nearest railroad, causing much annoyance to the authorities. The next thing we expect to hear of the young men is that they have taken to train wrecking for sport. Ordinary methods of amusement are becoming too tame, it seems, at Princeton...
...average. Doubtless the first trait is an estimable one, and as to the others, one can certainly be quoted discreditable, but the other, in my opinion, is somewhat doubtful. I don't agree with your views exactly in commending '85 for its quietness. While I discountenance anything which approaches rowdyism, I don't assent to the proposition that it is disgraceful to attend the theatre in a body, or indulge in such innocent amusements. It is an old, and I might say time-honored custom. Perhaps no class at present in the college, except '85, has omitted to "disgrace" itself...
...Students who attend the services at the Methodist church on Sunday evenings "carry their rowdyism so far as to distract the attention of a large portion of the audience, annoy the speaker, and insult members of the congregation...
...notice so disgraceful an affair as that which occurred, recently, under the auspices of the owner of a bull-dog. As most of our readers are acquainted with the circumstances of the case, we will not enter into them, but that so flagrant an exhibition of cruelty and rowdyism should pass among us without notice would justify the accusations of a low standard of morality which writers in the Transcript have striven so hard to substantiate. The individuals who were concerned in the affair are liable to prosecution for cruelty to animals, but they will probably escape the punishment they...