HAT FELLOW-COMMONER. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., the popular name given to a baronet, the eldest son of a baronet, or the younger son of a nobleman. A _Hat Fellow-Commoner_ wears the gown of a Fellow-Commoner, with a hat instead of the velvet cap with metallic tassel which a Fellow-Commoner wears, and is admitted to the degree of M.A. after two years' residence.
HAULED UP. In many colleges, one brought up before the Faculty is said to be _hauled up_.
HAZE. To trouble; to harass; to disturb. This word is used at Harvard College, to express the treatment which Freshmen sometimes receive from the higher classes, and especially from the Sophomores. It is used among sailors with the meanings _to urge_, _to drive_, _to harass_, especially with labor. In his Dictionary of Americanisms, Mr. Bartlett says, "To haze round, is to go rioting about."
Be ready, in fine, to cut, to drink, to smoke, to swear, to _haze_, to dead, to spree,--in one word, to be a Sophomore.--_Oration before H.L. of I.O. of O.F._, 1848, p. 11.
To him no orchard is unknown,--no grape-vine unappraised,-- No farmer's hen-roost yet unrobbed,--no Freshman yet _unhazed_! _Poem before Y.H._, 1849, p. 9.
'T is the Sophomores rushing the Freshmen to _haze_. _Poem before Iadma_, 1850, p. 22.
Never again Leave unbolted your door when to rest you retire, And, _unhazed_ and unmartyred, you proudly may scorn Those foes to all Freshmen who 'gainst thee conspire. _Ibid._, p. 23.
Freshmen have got quietly settled down to work, Sophs have given up their _hazing_.--_Williams Quarterly_, Vol. II. p. 285.
We are glad to be able to record, that the absurd and barbarous custom of _hazing_, which has long prevailed in College, is, to a great degree, discontinued.--_Harv. Mag._, Vol. I. p. 413.
The various means which are made use of in _hazing_ the Freshmen are enumerated in part below. In the first passage, a Sophomore speaks in soliloquy.
I am a man, Have human feelings, though mistaken Fresh Affirmed I was a savage or a brute, When I did dash cold water in their necks, Discharged green squashes through their window-panes, And stript their beds of soft, luxurious sheets, Placing instead harsh briers and rough sticks, So that their sluggish bodies might not sleep, Unroused by morning bell; or when perforce, From leaden syringe, engine of fierce might, I drave black ink upon their ruffle shirts, Or drenched with showers of melancholy hue, The new-fledged dickey peering o'er the stock, Fit emblem of a young ambitious mind! _Harvardiana_, Vol. III. p. 254.