RAGGING A GIRL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 91, 20 April 1914, Page 3

RAGGING A GIRL.

I • . , NEW YORK, April 4. Kagging is becoming., popular in America/ As the result of an affair of this nature in the girls' dormitory at the Perdue University, Lafayette Indiana, m January last, Mabel Rogers, of Shoals, Indiana, has filed a suit against seveiTsenior students demanding £1400 damages. ' ' The plaintiff, who is a first-year girl, says that up to the time she was ragged sho was a healthy girl with • normal eyes Now her eyes are im- . paired and her health destroyed ■ .She alleges that while she was preparing her lessons the seven girls ■■ dragged her from her\rgom, tore the clotnes off her, painted her face and back and neck with red ink, and : Po™^" gum down her back. ' Then they stuck pins into her in an j .eftort to compel her to kiiieel before ■ them and eventually-she was forced to seek hospital treatment. She can ; no longer do her University work