Word: chantes
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...summonses had commanded all offenders to appear at 9 a.m. At 9:30, to the chant of "Stand up! Stand up!" repeated by boosters in various corners of the room, wizened Judge Arthur P. Stone '93 entered the court through a curtain behind the bench. The bailiff bellowed in 17th century English that it was March 8th and that Court was in session...
...enjoy "the hospitality of our wonderful Mediterranean climate, where, until passions die down, he could spend the last years of his life, loved and respected." In Paris, a few World War I veterans, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun, remembered their old hero, set up a chant of "Set Pétain free" before police could silence them...
...first concert, some 1,000 young men and maidens milled outside in protest. Inside, as the conductor raised his baton for the Verdi Requiem, someone yelled "Down with Van Kempen." Others took it up, added "Sieg Heil" to the chant. Two students began singing the Horst Wessel song, two others tossed bottles of tear gas. Police cleared out the troublemakers and the concert went...
...sailor in Malta asked for the roar of the crowd when his soccer team (Tottenham Hotspurs) scored a goal; another wanted to hear his favorite pub owner calling the traditional closing-time chant: "Time, gentlemen, please!"; an airman asked for a "cockney barrow boy selling his wares." Oddest request came from a lonesome telegrapher in South Africa: he wanted to hear again the thunder of airplanes roaring low over his home just before they landed at London Airport...
First, Radcliffe has the "right" to deal with its students as it sees fit, short of beating them, libeling them, stealing from them, and so on. President Jordan could proclaim that any girl who didn't chant "I shall protect Radcliffe's good, name" for a half-hour every day would be expelled, and he would have a perfect "right" to do so. No contract, no charter, no law forbids such action. Similarly it can threaten Miss Labenow with expulsion for just about any reason it chooses. Or it can insist that its student reporters are reporters only...