Word: policemen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students at a Paris school called the Lycee Louis le Grand will occupy a conspicuous place in the history of academic insurrections. It originated in the displeasure of the boys at the expulsion of one of their number, and before it was finally quelled a detachment of forty policemen, one of whom was seriously wounded, had to break open the dormitories behind whose barricaded doors the rebels had intrenched themselves. The pupils sent preposterous terms of surrender to their principal, who promptly declined the same, and thereupon expelled and caused to be ejected no fewer than 270 of the refractory...
London medical students resented the other day the arrest of one of their number who was charged with stealing a book from a hospital. At the Guildhall police court a crowd of students assembled, and by yells and other expressions of interest attracted an extra force of policemen. When the court was opened the proceedings were threatened with a sudden termination, but the judge abmonished the young men, and quiet was restored...
...hoped that the class committee who have shown so much energy and care in the arrangement of the details of class day, will give especial attention to the matter of the gatekeepers on Friday next. Last year professional ticket-takers were employed in the place of the policemen who had served in previous years, in order that the large following of the latter gentry might not find so ready access to the yard. But it has been ascertained on excellent authority that it was the practice of some of the professionals employed to give a package of yard tickets...
...police commissioners of Cleveland have appointed 25 special policemen for service about the Cleveland rolling mills, ordered the sanitary police on duty, with two vehicles for expediting arrests, and have taken steps to prevent the threatened raids on the military armories...
...clearly of vandal, not of classic origin. "The college faculties do not yet seem to have perceived the extreme humor of the college joke. What they ought to do is to join in it themselves with great energy and with the help of a few humorous policemen and a witty magistrate. Let them kidnap a few sophomores, just as the latter are returning from the kidnapping of a freshman. Let the kidnapped sophomores be brought before the witty magistrate, and given a year or more of imprisonment. This would be an admirable joke...