Word: oval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Professor Bangs was jostled a little, but he says not much. He bears no traces of his being brushed aside by the march of the Freshmen as they paraded the Oval, either on his person or in his feelings. The damage done to the campus property was small...
...Haven, June 1.--A riotous celebration by the Freshman class at Yale involving the burning of the traditional "Freshman Fence" and the rough handling of a professor was under investigation here today. The riot, which occurred yesterday afternoon and evening, took place in the Berkeley Oval, the Freshman dormitory section. Professor F. H. Bangs was subjected to physical maltreatment when he tried to quell the outbreak...
...riot began when the Freshmen sent a shower of logs from the windows of the dormitories ostensibly in an attempt to break as many electric lights as possible in the Oval. Their efforts were largely successful and, lacking further diversion along the same line, a convocation ensued which resulted in the building of a bonfire. In order to supply fuel, the venerable "Freshman Fence", dear to the memory of Yale graduates and esteemed as one of the traditions of the college, was torn from its historic position and was used piecemeal to feed the flames...
Alarmed at the possible further developments of the insurrection, the college officials took advantage of the preoccupation of the Freshmen in their high carnival to lock all possible exits from the Oval with padlocks...
...number of men may play on a side. Running with the ball will be allowed only backward and from side to side. More than two steps forward will cost the possession of the ball. The oval may, however, be passed in any direction, forward, sideways, or back Personal contact will be barred...