Outbursts

Undergraduate outbursts, last week, included the following:

At Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.), one Thomas Gibb, 19, paralytic Freshman, was initiated into the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. Told to let himself down from a three-story window by a rope looped to the sash, he climbed out. The rope slipped, gave way, tumbling him to the ground. His parents, in China, were notified that he had suffered a broken hip, wrist, ankle, that he might die. One William Billow, likewise a Freshman, likewise a fraternity neophyte, was told to go to Harrisburg and get Governor John S. Fisher's signature. He was arrested breaking into a window of the Executive Mansion, later released.

Albion (Mich.) College students, good Methodists, gleefully watched their basketball team beat their longtime Presbyterian rivals, Alma College (Alma, Mich.). After the game some 250 Albions tried to crash into a local cinema. Police arrested 150, but could find place for only twelve in the town jail. These were released by friends with pickaxes and crowbars. While the rest were being piled into a truck to be locked up in another town, their cronies fought with the constabulary. Addressed by the President of the College to no avail, the rioting continued until state troopers and tear gas bombs dispersed the rebels.

Two hundred Harvardmen, excited by their hockey team's 4 to 3 victory over the Boston University Club, took possession of two cars on a Boston-Cambridge subway train. Having smashed windows, put out lights, torn down advertising posters, ripped out bell-cords, they were reported to the Cambridge police by frightened passengers. Their cars were shunted off into the subway's yards. There detectives piled them into patrol wagons, took them to the police station where their names were recorded. One engineering Freshman, a Henry T. Conway of Lowell, Mass., was discovered with a bit of bell-rope in his pocket. He was later fined $40.

University of Michigan prom trotters were under the surveillance of policemen stationed at every exit, in each smoking room and lobby of the gymnasium, lest some reveller take a drink.

The Columbia Varsity (undergraduate illustrated literary magazine issued five times yearly) published the results of a social questionnaire they had sent to Seniors. To the question "Do you believe in sexual relations outside of marriage?" 20 answered no, 55 yes. Sixty would not "marry only a woman of no sexual experience." Fifteen would. Asked if religion had "any appeal to you as part of a personal philosophy," 36 said it had, 37 said it hadn't.

Indignant Rutgers (New Brunswick, N. J.) undergraduates got their Student Council to petition the faculty to investigate the cause of their receiving such low marks in their Midyear Examinations. Dean Walter Taylor Marvin of the College of Arts & Sciences admitted that the two under classes had made lower marks than corresponding classes a year ago.

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