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...have decided to make an important change. There are many who would be glad to sign this petition, but who hesitate on account of what they call "revolutionary language," and the pledge "to concerted action." To succeed we must have everybody's signature; therefore the objectionable preamble has been torn off, and the petition stands alone, as presented in the CRIMSON for Nov. 21st...
...jersey than in the right sort of a canvass jacket ; and theoretically, no one but quarter-back and fullback, who need the utmost freedom in using their arms, and will not rush so much, have a right to wear jerseys. On the same principle, anything like loose or torn sleeves, a belt not covered by the jacket, or a jacket that does not fit in the next and meet at the lacing, should be avoided. We hope also that the management will give a good trial to the elastic jackets Yale wore last year : they ought to be much better...
...nearly half an hour the two classes struggled for the mastery. The campus was strewn with torn skirts and sowed thick with hairpins, and the faculty, hanging on the outskirts of the combatants, and weeping and wringing their hands, were powerless to restore order. Gradually the sophomores fought their way to the freshwoman who wore the back hair, and finally they triumphantly tore it from her head. At the same moment the freshwomen, inspired by a happy thought, simultaneously seized the quack hair of their opponents and fled to their rooms, each bearing her trophy...
...SERIOUS AFFAIR.The following is a report of a disgraceful riot created by students in Philadelphia: "During the annual bowl breaking at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday the crowd of excitable students got into the street, destroying considerable property. Some of them had their clothing badly torn, policemen remonstrated with the young men, but without avail. When the officers arrested George Danby, one of the participants in the melee, the crowd turned upon and assaulted the police, hurling bricks, stones and tin cans at them. Officer Murphy was struck on the head with a brick, and Officer Conner received...
...entertainment was so ruthlessly broken up by Princeton students last week, has been having further trouble. About noon last Monday he was discovered perambulating through the entries of Witherspoon Hall, entering rooms the occupants of which were absent. He claimed to be looking for certain phrenological charts which were torn from the walls by the crowd who broke up his show, and which he believed were concealed in some of the students' rooms. He was summarily ejected by the college police, as the college law forbids strangers the privileges of the buildings unless accompanied by students or having obtained permission...