Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several side lights on the riot between the Cambridge Police and a number of members of the University were discovered yesterday in the course of interviews with several of its leading actors...
...Lampoon, whose piccolo playing the University Theatre which preceded had been advertised as one of the leading features of the mid-night smoker at the riot, was the first one to be questioned be the Crimson reporter. Arthur Clements, who was one of the few civilians arrested, and several members of the Cambridge police force were then bearded by the same investigator...
...regard to the work of the Committee Carter said last night, "All grievances and evidence, both by those who participated and those who saw the riot, should be submitted in full in writing to the committee. Its object will then be to gather and compile the facts and cooperate with the college authorities in a proper remedying of the situation...
...basis of the evidence printed elsewhere in this paper, evidence which is supported by the unanimous opinion of students who were present at the time of the so-called riot Friday night, two points became very clear. In the first place there was no riot until wagon lands of police charged the crowd with drawn nightsticks in answer to a summons for aid, not a riot call. The police, in other words, created a riot before quelling it. In the second place, even had there been a riot the choice of methods made by the police was bad. There...
Evidence of that discord between college students and town authorities which comes to the fore periodically in such disturbances as the University Theatre riot last Friday night is found back in the days when the town of Cambridge was first gaining recognition as a distinct entity. Fifty-two years ago a writer for the Magenta in an article termed "Gown vs. Town" comes out strongly against the contaminating influence of the town then growing up around the University...