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1870-11-13 Page 04

I was out with the boys we numbered about eighty, all with blacked faces and with hickery clubs - looked quite formidable by the dim light of the stares The Freshman were going to have a general bum horning pulling off gates filling the recitation rooms full of wood &c. They had aranged to meet secretly on the old base ball grounds at 11 so we met at 10 1/2 oclock near by the ball grounds (having found out that they met mschief) and when they had assembled no sooner than they began to blow a horn than we dispearsed them catching, and buinding fifteen or twenty the rest sudenly thought twould be much more fun to show alternate taps down alternate streets than blowing horns and much more safe. We thouroughly frightened those we caught (as well as the others) then we made th scared trembling Fresh promise "that he would go right to his room; go right to bed, come out no more on such raids and that when he got to be a noble Sophomore if he lived that long, that he would do all in his power to keep good order and not rush during his Sophomore year, they they go sneeking off - Good bye Freshie - Good night Fresh, &c Two would not promis so we were forsed to use the charming moral force of disaplin. The came to terms before we had pumped cold hate on them long James P. Bean.

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I was out with the boys we numbered about eighty, all with blacked faces and with hickery clubs - looked quite formidable by the dim light of the stares The Freshman were going to have a general bum horning pulling off gates filling the recitation rooms full of wood &c. They had aranged to meet secretly on the old base ball grounds at 11 so we met at 10 1/2 oclock near by the ball grounds (having found out that they met mschief) and when they had assembled no sooner than they began to blow a horn than we dispearsed them catching, and buinding fifteen or twenty the rest sudenly thought twould be much more fun to show alternate taps down alternate streets than blowing horns and much more safe. We thouroughly frightened those we caught (as well as the others) then we made th scared trembling Fresh promise "that he would go right to his room; go right to bed, come out no more on such raids and that when he got to be a noble Sophomore if he lived that long, that he would do all in his power to keep good order and not rush during his Sophomore year, they they go sneeking off - Good bye Freshie - Good night Fresh, &c Two would not promis so we were forsed to use the charming moral force of disaplin. The came to terms before we had pumped cold hate on them long James P. Bean.