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features of the whole organization. Certainly none has been more
effective in spreading the University influence to the schools
of the state.
In the matter of discipline, there is little in the experience of
the University that can claim attention in such a brief review
as this unless it be in connection with hazing and rushes and
the honor system. Of hazing and rushing there has been some;
but the sober, good sense of the students has usually saved it
from especially dangerous extremes. Some of you may have seen
the landscape along with the festive engineers, or have been
taught to apply Blackstone by the junior laws, or brought to
trial before the special court in University hall. If so, I trust
that you were never guilty of helping, on occasion, to play such
tricks on others. Can it be that any of you have sold elevator
tickets to the freshmen or helped to elect Sam Kyle president
of their class? Do any of you know who painted the tank, or
who was carrying a paddle of more than regulation weight that
night last spring when the law men and the engineers met on
the campus, or who imprisoned the professor of applied mathe-
matics in the peanut gallery of the auditorium? Probably you
do not. I have some times thought it rather strange that those
who are usually aware of all that happens should be so ignorant
of things like this. Perhaps the passing years have already enabled
you to remember some of them, and you may recall still others
by and by; but it is not my purpose to cross-examine you.
Most of the surplus outbreaking energy of the students has
doubtless been drained off through the conduit of athletics. In
the early days of the University there was no athletic organiza-
tion, and little attention was given to the subject-nothing more
than a little baseball and tennis, an attempt to have an annual
field day and an occasional game with Southwestern with its
incidental beating. In 1893 came the first organized football
team and the first victory over Dallas. What heroes they were,
the eleven of that year-Morrison, Day, Furman, Lee, Will Mc-
Lean, Myers, Paul and Ray McLane, Roy, Philip and Moorel
They were a husky lot. I wonder how they would hold their
own with one of the more elaborately trained squads of recent
years. At any rate, they and the next year's team had an unin-
terrupted succession of victories, till on December 14, 1894,113
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