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...have resulted in public riots in Manhattan's crowded Columbus Circle, chases in fleets of taxicabs, bewildered freshmen spending enforced weekends in the suburbs. Yale's talisman is her Fence, stolen last autumn by Harvardmen (TIME, Dec. 2). Last week came news of Leland Stanford's axe...
Stanford's Axe...
First displayed by peg-trousered underclassmen at the Stanford-California game of 1898, the token was paraded under California noses accompanied loudly by the contemporary byword: "Give 'em the axe!" A group of muscular Californians, incensed, wrested the axe from Stanford, bore it away to Berkeley where, for the past 31 years, it has remained. The annual California axe rally has been a thorn in Stanford's suntanned side...
Last week, as the axe was being taken in an armored car to the annual ceremony, three young men posing as newshawks tossed a tear gas bomb into the procession, rushed the axe guards, made off with all but a small fragment of the precious implement during the mêlée. All of California's roadsters and all of her men scoured the roads leading out of Berkeley. But the sly Stanfordmen eluded them, got the axe home, hid it away. Next year Stanford's axe, unless a counter-raid is successful, will once more...
...Montreal, Mary Foster, 15, hacked her mother to death with an axe for telling her to go to school...