Word: briens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yesterday in commenting upon District Attorney T. C. OBrien's investigation relative to the lack of policemen in the Stadium during Saturday's football contests. Major Mooreechoed this general idea is an interview yesterday, and further stated that he had "beard nothing of the conference which District Attorney O'Brien stated Monday would be called to consider the question" and that "arrangements for policing the Stadium would remain as in the post until the police commissioner asked for a change...
...complaint made by District Attorney O'Brien about the lack of police protection in the Stadium seems out of focus with the facts in the case. In the first place it shows a misjudgment of the usual football audience. The number of spectators who are not attached either to Harvard or its opponent is relatively small. If the complaint is directed aganist the spectators directly interested, it shows an entirely unwarranted mistrust. Students, graduates, and their friends come to the game to witness a friendly contest in a spirit of mutual politeness, not to indulge in a free...
...second place Mr. O'Brien implies that not only has there been much roughness after the games but that this roughness should be punishable by arrest. For the police can check unruliness only by arrest. As a matter of fact the objectionable element has in the past made itself objectionable more by voice than by "unnecessary roughness"-a case for ushers rather than for police. Only on one or two occasions has the exodus of spectators been other than unusually orderly. And for those exceptional cases public opinion voiced in the Boston newspapers has a more beneficial effect than arrests...
...short Mr. O'Brien appears to have made a good-sized mountain out of a very small mole-hill. Members of the Harvard detachment are presumably strong enough to prevent the crowd from getting itself jammed in the exit and to keep spectators off the field. Aside from these exigencies the games at the Stadium have practically no need of policing...
...with Middlebury next Saturday, military guards will also be on duty just as they were at last week's game, according to a statement made yesterday by Mr. F. W. Moore, Graduate Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association. Early in the week it was reported that District Attorney O'Brien had complained that the policing furnished by these men was inadequate. Mr. Moore stated that the soldiers on duty at the Rhode Island State game were all members of the Field Artillery unit on Soldiers Field, and that they might be employed as ushers if not as military guards...