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Craft feared an even bigger "rowbottom" (as these things are called at Penn) for Friday night, and he decided suddenly to make concessions. He knew that students would be leaving their dorms by 5 p.m. for dinner, and any solution would have to be well publicized before that time or it would be too late...
Craft met with two student leaders, and they drafted a statement announcing there would be "significant changes in dorm hours" next semester. The statement was written by 4 p.m.--by 4:30. 1700 mimeographed copies had been distributed to every dorm mailbox. There was no rowbottom Friday night...
Still to be dispensed with are some old customs. One is riots, called "Row-bottoms" after Joseph Rowbottom ('12), whose roommate was allegedly wont to start trouble by bellowing drunkenly from the street, "Rowbottom! Rowbottom!" The student guide still warns girls to "seek immediate shelter" when Rowbottoms strike; they must lock doors, douse lights and hide until the official all clear. Also looking increasingly archaic is the discriminatory system of fraternities, eleven of them Jewish and 25 gentile...
...this he would set up a clamor for "Rowbottom!" and other students, awakened from slumber, would fling open their windows and echo the cry, so that the sound sleeper's name, though he had long since moved on, has been immortalized on the Penn campus ever since: It takes only the cry of "Rowbottom!" to start a fracas at this season of the year. --The Philadelphia Inquirer...
...Rowbottom will not appear in Cambridge tonight, nor will Rinehart. But Walt Kelly will...