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Club abolition movements soon started. In 1913 President Woodrow Wilson tried to establish a house system similar to that adopted here. Four years later saw the first sophomore "revolt." Petitions, Club board resignations, and 'Princetonian' editorials ensued, but World War I prematurely ended the fracas. Fruitless revolts materialized in 1925...
A world which was once set afire by a spark in what is now Yugoslavia has learned to take seriously even the slightest rise in temperature in the Balkan tinder box. Last week diplomatic pulses in half a dozen world capitals thumped over a frontier fracas on a half-submerged...
Ironically enough, Dean Hanford had just prepared a message warning of "severance of connection" for fracas participation: and the night before it was to be published, the disturbance took place.
The fracas followers usually gathered at the famous Rebellion Tree, an elm east of Hollis Hall. It was there that John Quincy Adams' son George heroically told the mobs, "Gentlemen, we have been commanded, at our peril, not to return to the Rebellion Tree: at our peril we do return...
Yale came to town the next weekend, and Dean Bender made an anticipatory admonition Friday morning. Nevertheless, that evening 3500 participated a disturbance that, according to University Police Chief Alvin R. Randall, made the "Princeton fracas look like peanuts."