Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Take away the newspaper-and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos. Without daily assurance of the exact facts-so far as we are able to know and publish them-the public imagination would run riot. Ten days without the daily newspaper and the strong pressure of worry and fear would throw the people of this country into mob hysteria-feeding upon rumors, alarms, terrified by bugbears and illusions. We have become the watchmen of the night and of a troubled day. . . . The collapse of an inflated era of spending has suddenly sobered the American public...
Last year the Class of 1934, spurred on by tradition and the gibes of a few upperclassmen, tried to stage a riot. The result was a pitiful farce. No one seemed actually to care about rioting. People began to realize that the modern Yale undergraduate has a different attitude toward this form of diversion than did the student of as decade ago. Today he is indifferent to riots...
Indifference has for quite awhile been the attitude of the upper classes toward rioting, but until lately freshmen have been able to whip up sufficient enthusiasm. Along with other "collegiate" tendencies, the riot spirit in recent years has been dying even among freshmen...
...primary function of athletics should be the 'reinvestment' of the wasted energy so admirably illustrated by the 'riot', in permanent additions to the human structure. Only through a balanced development of all aspects of the individual man can youthful energy be directed into the proper channels, and wasteful, if harmless, outbursts be prevented...