Word: bursars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aware of one of the college's oldest traditions, '39 finished its first spring in Cambridge with a riot. Bonfires in the Yard brought over 1000 men from the freshman dormitories and the Houses. Bursar's cards were seized in droves. But a few plucky students managed to evade the proctors. As the CRIMSON reported. "One man who failed to have his card was searched without success. When the Yard policeman thereupon claimed that he would remember his face, the freshman made an atrocious face and left the scene with rapidity...
University police stood by quietly as students filed into the library, showing their Bursar's cards to checkers at the doors. The officers had been dispatched to head off any incipient rioting by book-hungry undergraduates...
Meanwhile, Dean Watson revealed yesterday that he would "ask the Administrative Board to be very lenient" on students whose bursar's cards had been taken during the riot. He said that most students had behaved themselves "very well indeed," but warned that in the future the College would be forced to take "much more serious disciplinary measures...
Tennis playing on Soldiers Field will be restricted to holders of bursar's cards stamped with a "D," indicating a locker in Dillon Field House and to those who hold Faculty participation tickets...
Undergraduates will be admitted to the screen test of the two teams upon presentation of their ticket book coupon and bursar's cards...