An event at a fraternal organization, derived from scapegoating
1898, The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, page 135The field has been worked over very thoroughly and the spring " goatings " will not be very numerous.
p.1905, Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal, page 345With soirees, parties, germans and goatings, our time has passed away only too quickly
1912, Caduceus of Kappa Sigma, page 420Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.
1999, Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History, page 108Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.