Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bunk". Thus Captain Brennan of the Harvard Square Police Station termed the declarations of a Boston paper that the torchlight procession of University students next Thursday night would be accompanied by any form of rioting. The paper in question had vividly described the police as polishing up rusty riot guns, releading and cleaning their night sticks and greasing the "Black Maria" in anticipation of a rushing business on Thursday night...
...first place", said the captain, "the police force is always ready to cope with any situation. We have no need for polishing our riot guns, as they are not rusty; and the patrol wagon has always been and still is in good running order. While we are always ready, we seldom have to act, because the rank and file of Harvard students are quiet and law abiding...
Evidently the Boston police have not found students so quiet and peaceful, judging from the description of a riot occurring there some twenty years ago and mentioned by Captain Brennan...
...incident marred the day. A Law student from Missouri, becoming angry at being crowded by the horse of the chief of police, raised his cane and struck the officer. When the authorities tried to take him into custody a number of his fellow students tried to start a riot in an effort to free him, but their efforts were unsuccessful and the disturbance was quelled...
Precisely how it happened could not be ascertained, for each side accused the other; but a political riot started, lasted two hours, and was quelled only after the militia had arrived on the scene. Seven people were killed, 57 inj ured...