Word: subways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred Harvardmen, excited by their hockey team's 4 to 3 victory over the Boston University Club, took possession of two cars on a Boston-Cambridge subway train. Having smashed windows, put out lights, torn down advertising posters, ripped out bell-cords, they were reported to the Cambridge police by frightened passengers. Their cars were shunted off into the subway's yards. There detectives piled them into patrol wagons, took them to the police station where their names were recorded. One engineering Freshman, a Henry T. Conway of Lowell, Mass., was discovered with a bit of bell-rope...
Aside from the utter disregard for the rights of other individuals involved in the practice of demolishing subway rolling stock, such conduct hardly reflects credit upon the rioters themselves or upon the institution which in the popular mind they represent. The Boston Traveler is to be congratulated on recognizing the fact that "this sort of Siwash stuff" is not in fact representative of Harvard; others, less discriminating are not likely to be so generous if the subway customs of the last two years become a tradition...
Approximately 90 Harvard undergraduates were transferred from a subway car into the Brattle Square Police Station's black maria in the Harvard Square car-yard last night, after an alleged wholesale braking of windows, smashing of lights, and pulling of safety signals. After all their names had been registered at the station by Sergeant O'Neill, the men were released...
According to officials who coralled the small army of alleged disturbers of the peace, the damage was confined to the front car of a subway train bearing hockey crowds, which had boarded the cars at Park Street Under. Much of the damaged occurred before the train arrived in Central Square, and police and railroad men were consequently on hand at Harvard Square when the train drew...
...could not be ascertained last night what action would be taken against the alleged window and light smashers, but it is hardly to be expected that the operators of the subway will not seek some satisfaction for the damage suffered by their property...