Word: verba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EDWARD W. VERBA Campbell, Ohio...
Nunc ad illos transco qui principales partes agunt. Ex quibus primi cum primis nominandi hi Roscii: ille servus sollers, virgarum lascivia (quem nos T. Hilarem appellamus), et cius alter, Shillius Homo (qui solus intellegit uti miser sit homo qui amat), et Norris noster nobilis (qui verba blanda pro auro et dicta docta prodatis pracbet). Nec quidem vos estis mihi practereundac, o amatrices dicaculae et sagaces, tu, M. Paludis Filum et tu, o matre forti filia fortior, M. Tabum; nec tu, dura Dersofia; nec vos, o nymphae graciles, meae Mariac ambae; nec denique tu, o vox aurea cuius nomen barbarum Latin...
...Reader Verba is not alone in his dissent, for many people have confused the inane actions of a few attending the Pogo rally with the docility of the many. The trolly de-wiring and car-pounding was confined to a few individuals, most of whom were not even apprehended. Most of those in the Square last Tuesday, as many letters to the CRIMSON have pointed out, were dawdling on the sidebalk, waiting to see a cartoonist ride by and perhaps to cheer lustily when he did. There was no mob, as there is in a football riot...
...undergraduates on the head, the police were sure of raising more of a rumpus than ever existed before their arrival. They did. Most disturbances are terminated by the apprehension of those who are causing the trouble, which in this case was a small number, not by ostentatious brutality. Mr. Verba's argument that force was the most suitable weapon with which to disperse the rally is refuted by the fact that a second disturbance occured almost two hours after the first. The excitement ended only when the students became board...
...Reader Verba's main error then comes in assuming that there was a riot. There was none, and although the arrival of the police bid fair to make it one, even then it did not assume the proportions of a riot...