MANNERS & MORALS: Girls! Girls! Girls!

Who's that knocking at my door? Cried the fair young maiden.

Within three days last week, both Boston and New Haven were treated to a revival of a U.S. college phenomenon which used to occur with seasonal regularity back before World War II cast a sobering influence upon campus life: the spring riot.

The uproar at Yale began when a Good Humor man and an ice-cream vendor known as a Humpty-Dumpty man began squabbling over a choice parking place. A cop intervened, and students by the hundreds streamed into the street, where they spent two hours shooting firecrackers, waving banners, letting...

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