Unhappy, indeed, is the plebe whom none of the youngsters above him will consent to haze.

And frequent it happens that the most popular man in an upper class is one who, while in the fourth class, was the most unmercifully hazed.
Often a new man at the Naval Academy arrives with a firm resolution to resist all attempts at running or hazing.

He considers himself as good as any of the upper class men, and is going to insist on uniformly good treatment from the upper class men.
If this be the new man's frame of mind he is set down as being "ratey." But often the new man arrives with a conviction that he will have to submit to a certain amount of good-natured hazing by his class elders.

Yet this man, from having been spoiled more or less at home, is "fresh." In this case he is called only "touge." Hence it is a far more hopeful sign to be "touge" than to be "ratey." The new man who honestly tries to be neither "touge" nor "ratey," and who has a sensible resolve to submit to tradition, is sometimes termed "almost sea-going." Dave Darrin was promptly recognized as being "almost sea-going." He would need but little running.
Dan Dalzell, on the other hand, was soon listed as being "touge," though not "ratey.".