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...bust, as it would come to be known, wouldonly take a few minutes. The last paddy wagonsleft the Yard at 5:25 a.m. In that time, 196students were arrested, and dozens injured. Anextra edition of The Crimson that morning captureda moment of the tumult inside the hall: "A shortbrown-haired girl was hurled against the room'swooden divider and a trooper shouted, 'If youdon't stay there I'll break your fuckin' head.'"By the time the police left, the sidewalk outsideUniversity Hall was spattered with blood...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Facts: Takeover Split Tense Campus | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...Memorial fare will do well to remember that in 1637-39 Mrs. Nathaniel Eaton "provided very scantily for the students." She gave them bad fish, bread made of heated sour meal and denied them cheese "when they sent for it and although she had it in the house." Anextra order list was in vogue, one finds, as early as 1734. "The buttery came to be a recognized department of the college, where students could purchase provisions. beer, cider and other extras, in order that they might have no excuse for frequenting the public houses and taverns in the town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History of Harvard University. | 12/20/1890 | See Source »

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