Harvard last week received another token of the esteem in which it is held by Cambridge, Mass. To curb the "foolish, rampaging, nitwit Harvard students who break out into a riot now and then," Councilman Charles H. Shea proposed in Council that the city buy six horses (at $200 each) for its police. Said he: "We need mounted police for the Harvard students. I don't know if they are Communists, Bolsheviks or nuts, but we should be ready to cope with them."
Councilman J. Gordon Duffy thought it would take twelve horses. The...
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