Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Yesterday afternoon one of the aeroplanes of the "Pleasure Flying Co." fell into the Charles River injuring the pilot, Ensign W. E. Nightingale '15 and killing the passenger, J. L. Allen, of Dorchester. The accident occurred near the Cottage Farm Bridge before a crowd of thousands, many of whom were waiting their turn. Ensign Nightingale, U. S. N., the pilot, jumped free just before the machine hit the water, while the passenger was caught. One of the University crews was in the vicinity and members of it assisted in the rescue work. Ensign Nightingale during the war was stationed...
...fraternity houses and dorms and rooming houses harbor many erstwhile students who soon will be travelling homeward toward doting daddies. When a considerable calamity visits any community, there comes a bountiful crop of satisfying, but short-lived resolutions of "Never again." Within a month, the whole crowd of resolutions go a-glimmering, and the community tumbles back into the rut which leads to disaster...
...contents of this number are in any event plenty, and excellent. The diversity is striking. We glimpse the ancient Maine of sailing-vessel days and the still more removed Russia of 1915; faculty salaries and freshman short-comings do not crowd out plays and "the other man's wife" and a charming song. The cartoonist has done his best--and worst--with the ineffable stipend of the poor harmless drudge. And a clever actress gets her picture in the paper...
...Harvard Liberal Club of Boston are seriously concerned to learn of an incident that took place recently in one of the College dormitories. It appears that a Harvard Freshman, who had interested himself in certain radical movements, including the Lawrence strike, had his room invaded by a crowd of twenty students, among whom were the sons of some of the mill-owners and was subjected to an abusive inquisition regarding his personal opinions and conduct, after which certain of his papers were destroyed. We deplore the fact that Harvard men should attempt to control a fellow student's lawful thought...
...have been called for; the circumstances of the meeting and the nature of the subject, however, might have suggested at least a pacific refusal and an explanation of the situation. Instead the police thought it necessary to protect the disturber from the hostility of the crowd...