Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were subsequently treated for injuries. Other class spirit activities described by the Princetonian this fall included the shaving of the heads of five freshmen, a series of thefts involving a hired airplane and the clapper to the Nassau hall bell, and the annual Cane Spree, which promptly initiated another riot...
Here is a sport without flaw, approaching at last--the ideal of student participation. It combines the virtues of team spirit, rivalry, and upperclass exercise. There is no better training in sportsmanship than an Ivy League goal-post riot, run on strict gentleman's rules. Above all, it has spectator appeal with no taint of professionalism...
...support it. His more familiar squalor tales and mass-and-class ruminations pad out the rest of the book, but they justify their intrusion only a couple of times. The Fastest Runner on Sixty-First Street (a sprinting champion who runs straight to his death during a race riot) shows the author at his Chicasro-street-corner best. The Martyr, anti-Communist Farrell's dissection of what a U.S. Communist writer is up against when he tries to shade the party line, comes as close as anything in recent fiction to making homegrown intellectual Reds human in their fears...
...rally planners hope to include Massachusetts Avenue in the marching route, but riot-conscious Randall is also trying to veto this scheme. Randall explained yesterday that the Cambridge Police Department does not want traffic tied up on Mass Avenue or a repetition of last year's Princeton riot...
...entertain the tremendous crowd during parttime Leverett House will put on an impromptu riot...