Word: subways
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rowdyism by Harvard students on a subway train and, later, on the station platform at Harvard square, has besmirched the crimson. Apparently there is need, in the great university at Cambridge for a compulsory course in manners...
There appears in an adjoining column, under the title of "Student Muckcrism," an editorial from a Boston newspaper which, in its efforts to censure the recent "subway riot" of a few undergraduates, refers to Harvard in insulting language, achieving no more in its accusations than the bad-manners which it claims to have discovered. With the exception of a similar affair last spring, which was aggravated by too-zealous policemen, there is no recent precedent for the occurrence on Monday evening. Such an isolated and mild occasion scarcely calls for the thunders of the press to be couched...
...supplement's illustrations of the minimum requirements to clothe the female form devine...The impression given by the work was a mistaken one, or almost that. The picture was not a poster, it was a Sargent!...And now at last, he had got down to the level of the subway...
...York State, it is no great crime to spit in a subway car or on the street. It is no great crime to wake sleeping citizens with ribald songs, to walk on the grass. According to the State statutes these are only misdemeanors, minor offences which are not felonies. For a misdemeanor, a man may spend at most a year in jail, pay a $500 fine...
...Justice Arthur Sidney Tompkins gave the maximum penalty. Many were shocked. It appeared that conspiracy to defraud the city, when millions were involved, was simply a misdemeanor. Mr. Connolly was sentenced to a year in jail, a fine of $500. Criminally he had attained no greater stature than a subway spitter...