THE GREAT FRAT FIGHT AS I REMEMBER IT.
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THE GREAT FRAT FIGHT AS I REMEMBER IT.
The fraternity war has fortunately become
ancient history. After a lapse of nearly ten
years, the results must appear to the barbar-
ians as trivial as did the causes at the time
to the fraternities. Neither have the literary
societies ceased to exist, nor have the fra-
ternities died. It was an Austerlitz and not
a Waterloo that was fought on the night of
October 31st, 1884.
Like all wars celebrated in history, there
were causes remote and immediate, remote
as the time when one man first chose an-
other to be his friend in preference to a
third, and as immediate as the refusal of the
fraternities to meet the enemy in open con-
flict the week before the final battle. It is
not true that the earlier students were all of
a pugnacious disposition, but it must be con-
fessed that after years of active strife be-
tween the two societies, the Hesperian stu-
dent fights and similar excitements, the dead
level of peace that prevailed in the early
eighties grew somewhat irksome to a few of
the leaders. Painting the roof, exercising
the museum skeletons, and enticing donkeys
to the third floor were all very well so long
as they lasted. But these exploits did not
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