Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After winding through the Yard, they poured into the Square, attracting a crowd which eventually numbered 2000. "The boys were having a hell of a time," the Cambridge police chief said later of the most violent rioting in the Square in a decade.
When the disturbance ended, four Harvard and eight Princeton undergraduates were taken to police headquarters, where several, unable to raise bail, spent the night.
Days after the incident, 21 Harvard students were placed on probation for terms of up to four months, while the Princetonians arrested were let off with a reprimand.
Students were carrying the refrigerator outside when the incident occurred. They scattered when the tube broke, warning the other occupants as they ran. Meanwhile, the House supervisor had telephoned the fire department. No one was hurt, although the smell lingered for several hours.
Both Stanley H. Hoffman, Henry LeBarre Jayne Assistant Professor of Government, and A. Nicholas wahl, instructor in government, were wary of accepting Hurd's conclusion that, "This means no less than France's withdrawal from the jointly decided and executed operations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization," without seeing more...