Last month Rutgers University, often riotous, set out to investigate causes and cures of undergraduate unrest. Spring weather soon furnished fresh data: Last fortnight at the University of Pennsylvania, 1,000 students engaged in a rowbottom.* Result: 100 students jailed, later reprimanded. Last week at Harvard, 1,000 students battled 40 constables.* Result: one sophomore was arrested, appealed a sentence of five days in the house of correction. Casualty: Freshman Samuel Craft Davis Jr., nephew of Governor General Dwight Filley Davis of the Philippines, received lacerations about the head. Last week at Yale, 400...
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