Word: rowbottoms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...name "Rowbottom," used exclusively for the student riots which erupt at the University of Pennsylvania about this season of the year, was given them (not willingly) by a Penn student of the Class...
...name was Joseph T. Rowbottom, and the use of his name for any kind of student uproar came about because he was a sound sleeper...
...Rowbottom occupied an upper floor in one of the quadrangle dormitories, and had a roommate who regularly came in late, only to find himself locked...
...University of Pennsylvania the next night, before the Penn-Army game, 3,000 men & women staged the most destructive "Rowbottom"* in the University's history. For four hours, demonstrators cut trolley wires and set kerosene fires on the streetcar tracks, overturned autos and punctured tires, kept 300 cops busy untangling traffic and quelling the mob. Pennsylvania's President George McClelland suspended three riot leaders, said sternly: "With thousands of veterans crying for a chance at a college education, there is no room on the nation's campuses for the current epidemic of disorders...
...Penn cry for a riot, similar to Harvard's "Rinehart" (TIME, April 8). The legend goes that in 1910 tippling cronies of one Joe Rowbottom disturbed the campus night so persistently by shouting his name that indignant students threw wash bowls and pitchers out the windows at them...