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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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resulted in the sort)f cramming that is now decided to be soleleterious to the mental and physicalitrength of the midshipmen, and it is prob-able that the recommendation of the Offi-;:ial Board of Visitors, indorsed by the NavalBoard, that hereafter no classes be gradu-ated until they have completed the full fourfears course, will be adopted and carriedtat.1 At the academy, the third classmen are from time immemorial undertaken the re-sponsibility of teaching the Plebes howto behave in the presence of their superiors.Setting up, fagging, and runningbecame, under due process of evolution, hazing, and out of that practice, reprehen-sible or salutary according to how it is re-garded, has grown the serious disorder andcases of brutality which a year or two agoended in the death of a midshipman as theresult of a fist fight which, however, it isstoutly maintained by the midshipmen, didnot take place under the sanction of thepractice of hazing or of its code of rules. 84 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE
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The Brice House, Annapolis The outbreak of indignation at the seriesof events charged rightly or wrongly to the hazing account, and which culminatedin the death of young Branch, found ex-pression in Congress by the passage of thepresent anti-hazing law. This gives the su-perintendent of the Naval Academy thepower to deal directly with the midship-man accused of hazing, and to apply to himthe code of punishment provided — even to the extent of dismissing him from the serv-ice without resorting to the ordinary meth-ods of court-martial — whenever he is sat-isfied that the presence of any midship-man at the academy is detrimental to thepublic service. Hazing, moreover, is de-fined by this law to be an act, system, orany unauthorized assumption of authorityby one midshipman over another midship-man whereby the last mentioned midship-man shall suffer any cruelty, indignity, hu-miliation, hardship, or oppression, or thedeprivation or abridgment of any rights,privilege, or advantage to whi

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