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...same time that the students of Glasgow University were pelting one another with aged eggs and older fish in an attempt to choose a Regent, the police were called into the classrooms of the Sorbonne to quell a riot started by candidates for degrees who had failed in the written examinations. To their not unbiased minds the examinations were quite impossible. And to the not unbiased mind of the dean they, themselves, were quite impossible. Their "incredible ignorance" shocked the dean; for among them was one who credited Chateaubriand with "Emile" and "The Social Contract". Thereupon the dean...
Only a small group of visitors assembled to see the opening of the Supreme Court, although in several ways it was historic. The fact that none of the seats in the court room are reserved for privileged persons, such as diplomats and friends of the members, helps to quell the itch to get in. And then the members live such quiet lives...
Peking. Students, mostly children, backed by merchants, shopkeepers, coolies, continued to parade the streets demanding armed action against the British. Chief Executive Tuan Chi-jui requisitioned troops to guard foreigners. The Diplomatic Corps warned the Gov ernment that it must take energetic steps to quell anti-foreign disturbances. The Government replied that the disturbances were caused by foreigners...
...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...
Professor Bangs, who found himself incarcerated with the rebellious Freshmen behind the locked gates, made three courageous sallies in the face of the outraged prisoners to quell the disorders. His fourth sortie was greeted by a well-directed stream from a fire extinguisher which had been brought into action...