Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cost of living. It is thus hoped that, by facing the situation squarely, and by warning the men that, although individual hardships cannot be avoided, the remedial measures are for the general good, the financial and economic problems of the country can be solved. Naturally the Government was riot anxious to increase unemployment during the severity of a Russian winter, but in taking measures to do so, they showed both confidence in the workers and courage in their own convictions...
...mental struggle between Kangaroo and Somers was intense; in spite of Kangaroo's force Somers would not be converted. He, too, loved Australia, but not in Kankaroo's way-and when Kangaroo died after receiving several bullets in his marsupial pouch in the course of a riot, he felt it was time for him to go away. So the end of the book finds Somers starting for America with little decided except the knowledge of what he believes alive in Richard Somers' mind...
...Haven, Conn. October 4.-- The Yale Student Council yesterday in addition to deciding to levy a fee of seventy-five cents on every Yale Sophomore who participated in the riot last June in order to defray the expenses of that disorder, decreed that the second-year men should sign a pledge card barring disorderly conduct, and also decided that the Juniors must take the following pledge...
Incidental news from college towns is poor evidence on which to base unfavorable criticism, especially when the news in question is framed to appeal to the sense of the ridiculous. But in the case of the now famous Yale Freshman riot of last June it is upon a succession of acts rather than upon a suddenly-announced penalty that opinion must be based. The threat to forbid the Freshman crew to race at New London unless all the offenders confessed and the actual disqualification from all activities of a large part of the Sophomore class are facts to be remembered...
...considered by educators as a very definite means of maintaining discipline in the various colleges . . . Where these units exist." Western Reserve with its nine students in the hands of the police after a snake dance and Yale with its mass probation as the result of a Freshman dining hall riot, may be forced to adopt such a method; perhaps Harvard in its provincialism may be able to avoid accepting it for some years to come...