Word: rowdier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Redder and rowdier than any other U. S. seat of learning is the College of the City of New York, many of whose 22,000 politically-minded students seem to get their best fun at mass meetings or on picket lines. Completely antipodal is C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, goateed, independent oldster who dresses conservatively, plays the cello, hates the rude manners of his undergraduates. After President Robinson characterized some C. C. N. Y. demonstrators as "guttersnipes" and trounced a dozen of the rowdiest of them with his umbrella, a committee of alumni solemnly found...