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...Cambridge police to attempt to disperse us before more damage is done. But how can they disperse a riot? To tell everyone to go home, or to reason with a crowd of college boys out to raise hell is futile. Possibly the only way to disperse an unruly mob is by frightening them, and the Cambridge police did this very well. Though they might have been slightly extreme (and I say slightly because, despite the CRIMSON stories of brutality, no broken skulls resulted, but only a few bruises shared by students and police), the police did break up the riot...
...argument that those arrested were innocent bystanders is, I believe, fallacious. A mob finds its power of destruction because it is a large mass of people. Though a single individual may not be responsible for damage, just by standing within the crowd he is adding to its effectiveness and danger. Since the police cannot arrest the whole crowd, they must single out individuals--and this will usually be arbitrary. Dean Bender has pointed out several times that when a student sees a riot, he should walk away as fast as possible or he will be liable to place of influence...
...those used last night, the main difference being that the police normally use such methods to prevent injury from crudely armed hoodlums, not only to themselves but to the law-abiding public. Were I to ask a witness of last nights fracas whom he feared most, the "incited mob" or the police, I feel sure what his answer would be. Yours very truly, Peter W. Kent...
When half an hour later, he emerged again, they hissed and booed as he told them, "If college policy is over settled by this kind of mob violence, it will be time for a more stringent set of regulations than has been proposed...
...Lavender Hill Mob. A sprightly British spoof with Alec Guinness stealing the show as a prim bank employee who absconds with $1,000,000 (TIME...