Word: rioting
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...Crimson covering the arrest of a group of Harvard students after a riot on a subway car bringing them back from a Boston hockey game, and the arrest of a Harvard student for passing out socialist literature in Harvard Square. The latter, the paper noted, stood trial in Cambridge Court after "One Irishman, one Italian, and one hybrid" had been convicted of drunkenness. Later in the year, a headline told Harvard: "Director of Fogg Art Museum Receives Threatening Letters Denouncing Late Purchase of Paintings--Suspect Black Hand...
...bright spot was The Crimson's coverage of the arrest of H.L. Mencken in Boston for selling the April 1926 issue of The American Mercury. Mencken gave The Crimson an interview and lashed out at the Watch and Ward Society leader who had engineered his arrest. The 1927 "riot" in the Square, a police-instigated incident which embroiled the City and University in controversy, received several feet of column space in the Spring of 1927, including an extra story with one of the longest lead sentences in the paper's career...
...Crimson report, the police had arrested quixotically, and applied their nightsticks at random. Among the arrested were a Somerville clerk who was making a bus transfer in the Square when a police van passed by; two students were picked up on Holyoke Street, several blocks from the "riot" in front of the University Theatre, by a passing Black Maria; one student had his nose broken and face lacerated by a policeman attempting to knock a pipe from his mouth...
...going insane in that room," says "Roach" Brown. A onetime street hustler convicted of murder, he was talking about his solitary confinement after a 1968 riot at the Lorton Reformatory near Washington, D.C. Brown lost track of time-first the date, then the day of the week, eventually even night and day. "I used to talk to myself and laugh and cry," he remembers. "I wanted someone to see me, to say they cared." Finally, one day, the sliding panel in his cell door clicked open, a hand reached in with two packs of cigarettes plus a ration of candy...
...Northeastern fans were in a frenzy throughout the game and almost started a riot late in the second half. Fitzsimmons made a jesture with the middle finger of his right hand at some black Northeastern fans under the Huskie basket...