Word: riots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another day, a mass meeting of 12,000 students was held in the famous Bal Bullier (popular dancing hall). At the same time, six students were being tried for their share in the riot. Two were imprisoned for short terms in spite of the ardent support they received from their professors; the remaining four were fined...
...result of the riot the Dean, Dr. Louis Barthelemy and the Faculty of the Law School were suspended from their functions by Minister of Education Francois Albert. The Dean became the hero of the hour...
...theatre. The very advantage of proximity becomes a disadvantage, as a number of colleges have already discovered. The nightly "movie" habit is easy to form and attended with many harmful consequences. Then there is the possibility that a local theatre would be turned into a collegiate madhouse, with unruly riot, peanut throwing, and cheap witticism. The banality often shown at a Class Smoker would be there in that case--only intensified to a high degree...
Lawless mob action is not to be encouraged. Yet, the despotism of minority-owned and -operated saxophones over the sleep of the undergraduate masses has flourished diurnally, or rather nocturnally, to the point where mob action has at last interfered and set a precedent. The Riot Act has been read to yodelling Rheinharts, operatic understudies, and ragtime virtuosi. The day of the proctor and yard cop is obviously past, for the undergraduate has discovered he himself is a splendid disciplinarian, and he takes a decided pleasure in his office. Gilbert and Sullivan might well have said, "When constabulary duty...
...assistance of their leader when he has been floored. Conveniently appearing as helpers and then as peacemakers does not change the fact that the fight lasted twenty minutes. The gang blocked business; they did not pay and they got their instructions three times from the bully. Rum, Riot and Rebellion come nearer, but Anarchy and Chaos, Conspiracy are the words which apply to a state of murder, of robbery, and of thugs...