Word: policemen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...violation of this law of twenty shillings fine and the confiscation of the cakes. The account says that "the anniversary of commencement had become a sort of saturnalia for the whole neighborhood, and the wild revels of the students were so prolonged that it was necessary to put policemen on guard for several days and nights together." But the law did not seem to have any effect and the faculty seemed to be powerless to stop the commencement festivities. Students were time and again warned against having plum cake in their rooms, and one poor fellow suffered dire punishment because...
...negative Mr. Chenoweth declared that the jury system was liable to great abuses and that the chief reason the anarchists were sentenced was because the people of Chicago thought the blood of the murdered policemen called for vengeance. They only meant to forestall a change in the present social state of things, and we must beware of making martyrs of them by persecution. The hope was expressed that the Anglo-Saxon love of fair play would assert itself...
...life. In regard to that which touches the courts so nearly as the regulation of police removals in New York, Chancellor Howard Crosby, in a recent number of the "Forum," advocates that "the legislature make the board of commissioners' powers final," for under the regulation which allows discharged policemen to appeal to the civil courts, if the commissioners discharge men for what seems to them adequate cause, "the civil courts, with their abounding technicalities, will at once reinstate them...
...over the Cambridge lines, an enormous crowd of business men, students and strikers gathered on Harvard square; but the latter were in a decided minority. At nine o'clock a bell rang in the stables and a chocolate colored Bowdoin square car came swiftly out, escorted by eight mounted policemen and stopped in the square. There was a general stir on the part of the strikers but no aggressive action. The car was filled with students in a twinkling and went off amid the derision of the crowd. The track by long disuse had become too clogged, however...
Some more hacks loaded with heavy graduates intervened between the Cup and the Law School. The drum corps of that body was excellently! drilled by that skilled tactician, Mr. J. A. Frye, and dressed in smart policemen's uniforms they formed a very pleasing feature of the show. Their leading transparency informed the public that they were "drumming for clients." Their other transparencies, though all based on legal catches were exceedingly clever. One represented "Circuity of Action," as exemplified by a corporal's arm and a trim maiden's waist; its reverse, by a diagram of a gentleman birching...