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Seagirt. On the parade ground before the Little White House at Seagirt, summer home of New Jersey's Governor, appeared 200 guardsmen masquerading in blue dungarees as riotous strikers. To quell their mock disturbance a platoon of State infantry in gas masks marched against them, hurled tear bombs for practice. A soft breeze blew the white fumes back into the Little White House. Governor & Mrs. Arthur Harry Moore wept...
...Edward Martyn. Creating an Irish National Theatre out of Abbey Theatre, she aroused a storm of protest with her productions. So unpopular was John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World that Lady Gregory's young nephews had to fetch burly athletes from Trinity College to quell the rioting...
Students at Harvard, stronghold of eastern conservatism, staged a riot last week which developed into a pitched battle with police, tear bombs being necessary to quell the blue-blooded New Englanders. A stolen bell clapper was the only apparent cause for the excitement, yet Harvard put on a fight that surpassed Stanford-California Axe and bonfire raids. Nor is this an isolated incident; similar clashes with police are common occurrences both at Cambridge and New Haven, and no one appears to consider them anything unusual...
...Stern measures must be taken to quell growing agitation among the peasants," cried Count Bethlen, famed for his ruthlessness in office. "Growing radical tendencies on the farms have become a menace to the State...
...charge of disturbing the peace. A. L. Putnam '20, Consultant on Careers, was picked up by frenzied Cambridge Police during the height of the riot, but was soon identified by Major Charles R. Apted '06, and subsequently released. The methods used by the police in their efforts to quell the disturbance were of little avail. Their use of tear gas and clubs merely made the students more determined to continue the riot and seek revenge on the police...