Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 14th a small group of Harvard students instigated a riot in the cars of the Boston Elevated after the Harvard-Minnesotta hockey game. Similar incidents have occurred far too often during the past three years. Subway riots have become a custom...
That the post-hockey game subway riots have passed from the stage of youthful, good-natured rough-housing and become annoying detriments to Harvard's reputation has long been evident. Still they have occurred with regularity. Afterwards there was always the lesson, then the exhortation; but to the amazement of most upperclassmen, another riot would follow. In recognizing the seriousness of the situation and in making an appeal to every student's sense of decorum the student. Council has given official force to a feeling which has been growing steadily. The threat of drastic and final action by the University...
...peculiar reputation of Harvard's name any act committed by one of the students bears a tremendous news value in the metropolitan press. Any story pertaining to the University is immediately overated merely because it concerns Harvard; it is a delight for most city editors to attach a riot story for instance, to the name of the University. With distorted publicity there is opprobium and the difficulty of setting matters aright is twice as great...
...present statement of the Student Council is circulated sufficiently there should be no immediate riot. If one occurs, the offenders will deserve to suffer any severe action which the University might take...
...Fascist Italy's Dino Grandi was in Philadelphia last autumn, Orlando Spartaco jumped on the running board of his car and shouted at the Foreign Minister what sounded like imprecations in. Italian. Arrested on the spot, Orlando Spartaco was later sentenced to two years imprisonment for "inciting to riot." (TIME, Dec. 7.) The case was appealed to the Superior Court where last week the sentence was reversed for insufficient evidence. Policemen, unable to understand Italian, could not testify what Orlando Spartaco had shouted. Remarked Judge Keller: "For all we know, the young man might have jumped up and down...