hazing
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Longtime Bush friend Clay Johnson recalls that Bush revealed nascent political skill during fraternity hazing at Yale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“I saw it as affectionate hazing and acceptance into the group.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
But the objects of his hazing are publicly unfazed.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2026
We were then, indeed, challenged and tested, with a slew of activities that added up to little more than a light hazing to bond us.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2025
We got the presidents of the sorority as our “big sisters,” which meant that throughout pledging, we escaped a lot of the hazing.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
Historic revivals of hunting urge make an interesting recital of religious inquisitions, witch-burnings, college hazings, persecution of suffragettes, of the I.W.W., of the Japanese, or of pacifists.
From An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Cornelia Stratton Parker
The Rival Pitchers A Story of College Baseball A faithful picture of college life of to-day, with its hazings, its grinds, its pretty girls and all.
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose
