Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of the students who were present at the riot, but were not aware at the time that it was all a deception, will be called upon to testify. It is expected that a good part of the witnesses will contradict one another or be unable to give connected accounts of the affair...
Students of the second year course in Evidence at the Law School, who staged a fake riot during the class hour last Saturday, will hold their mock trial this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock in Langdell Center to prove the fallacy of human testimony. Professor J. MacA. Maguire, instructor of the course, will act as judge...
...Were riots merely absurd they would cause no great concern, but unfortunately they are alarmingly dangerous things. They begin in nothings and spread rapidly to unrestrainable proportions. That last year's disturbance did not lead to serious accidents or to deaths was entirely a matter of good fortune nor is this an exaggerated statement. And it did terminate in a great expense, in a great deal of hard feeling, and in serious consequences for the offenders. The Freshmen of course have no memory of that nor of the great riot several years ago and the impossible situation which it created...
Several of their number, picked at random, will now be subpoenaed to appear at a hearing on the riot, which will be held at the Law School Friday afternoon. There they will be questioned us to what happened, and the class will be able to reach a definite conclusion as to whether several human witnesses of the same event give like or unlike testimony...
...fake riot was so naturally staged in a second year class on evidence at the Law School Saturday, that the 200 or more members of the class were not led to believe that it was all a deception devised to prove the fallacy of testimony...