Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month or so the Harvard, daily, the Crimson, has drawn attention by criticism of activities having a patriotic background or purpose. It referred to the American Legion convention in Boston as a brawl. Latter it said that the courses in naval and military science were unworthy of the university and a haven and refuge for dull and lazy students. The young editors are impatient in observation of nationalism and its manifestations...
...case at hand, we cannot see that there is much room for argument. To be told in print that their convention was a "brawl" would irritate any loyal Legionnaire. But that it WAS a brawl, and that practically every convention of this sort is a brawl, has been overlooked by those who were criticised by the Crimson...
...Haskell ran into my hand and broke my wrist. His eye hit my fist." Thus last week deposed Showman Arthur Hammerstein concerning a brawl involving himself, Jack Haskell, dancemas-ter for Hammerstein's recent Manhattan musicomedy Luana, and Harold Rand, a chorusman (TIME, Aug. 11). All charges were dismissed. The three grinned, posed amiably for photographers...
...Harvard CRIMSON did call the American Legion Convention a "wholesale brawl etc." Well! "deah"! me!. Lets give three long rahs for Harvard and the CRIMSON only don't make them too loud, it might annoy the "death" old "Harvard Ladies"!! Of course, the scenes of disorder were caused by Cambridge and Boston hoodlums, amongst whom were probably some students, too young to have been "over there" in 1918, and who wouldn't have been there if they could have, but anyway do you "death old things" really think the Legion (900,000 MEN NOT children) care what the CRIMSON thinks...
Have just read an account in the paper where you called the annual convention of the American Legion in Boston a "Brawl". I can't imagine any man who attends Harvard sponsoring or writing such an editorial. I have attended American Legion conventions and of course all of them are not orderly and some may get drunk. But as to your term "Brawl...