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Catering to the mob or to the individual; which course shall the college curriculum pursue? John Hurd, Jr., of the English department, adds more dry tinder to the fire of the issue in an article in The Intercollegiate for November, in which he rudely destroys the cherished tradition of Oxford as an educational millenium...
...American college environment is the shrine of mob worship of molded standards. Its heroes are individuals who are still of the campus. Its inflexible axiom lets those who deviate suffer in the pillory of mob spite. In such an atmosphere confirmed anglophiles are only pitiful...
...handful of State Police met the mob first with the butts of their rifles. They clubbed and pommeled, and were treated in turn to a shower of sticks, rocks, knife-stabs. One trooper had his eye gouged nearly out. None escaped injury. Mr. Scherf ordered a retreat to the Columbine gates, where he formed the troopers in a double...
...mob growled and surged. The troopers cursed. Mr. Scherf ordered a volley over the heads of the "Wobblies." They did not wobble. The next volley, point blank into the close-packed marchers, brought shrieks, confusion a halt. Bodies began dropping to the ground?one, two. As the "Wobblies" retreated, more of the wounded fell out. Five died, 20 were wounded, including two women in men's clothing...
...Climax of the play occurs when Barbara stands in the balcony outside the room of her wounded lover, clutching the Stars and Stripes to her breast. She is saved from the indignant mob by "Stonewall" Jackson, who marches in from Hagarstown by an exactly opposite direction to that in which the Union troops left for the same place. Amid fanfares of music, an endless line of soldiers, dressed in queer parodies of the Confederate uniform, passes under the balcony. If you are near enough to the front, you can quite plainly hear them racing around back stage to join...