Monday, Jan. 30, 1928
Again, Restraint
Students who would suit themselves ran into more difficulties last week. Suppressed youths:
Nightclub. Seventy boys and 70 girls of the Medill High School, Chicago, attended a dinner dance at the Club Bagdad, were caught in a raid by prohibition agents, denied they had been drinking. Agents searched for evidence in vain.
Bull. President Wallace Walter Atwood, of Clark University, appeared before his students to explain suspension of two editors and a contributor of the Clark College Monthly. The offense: publication of a one-act play, Bull Session. "O-scene," said President Atwood.
Rouge. Ten senior girls of Woodfin High School, Asheville, N. C., will use no rouge or lipstick for a twelvemonth. Penalties: first offense, facewash; second, showerbath; third, castor oil; fourth, ostracism for two weeks.
Brides. Matrons of fourteen and fifteen must go to school, said Miss Nellie Flanigan, chief of the compulsory attendance department of Kansas City Schools. Increase of child marriages in Kansas City has increased her work.
Water Pistols. If a girl refused to dance with a boy at a Rosewood High School of Rosewood, Minn., party, he promptly squirted her in the eye and dress with a water pistol. Twelve soaked girls went home from a recent party, caught cold, were absent from school for a week. Parents protested. Last week the Rosewood school officials announced that any person carrying water pistols or other squirting apparati would be ousted from the school.
Rutgers College boys refused to be suppressed. The bell in old Queens Building did not peal its 8 o'clock summons. Authorities investigated, found the clapper stolen, found also a note: "Ye old tradition. 4:10 a. m."
At the College de France, Paris, students protested violently against the views of Jules Loth, lecturer on anthropology. They felt urged to hurl twelve stench bombs into his lecture room. They did so. M. Loth's lectures were suspended.