Rowbottom

Last month Rutgers University, often riotous, set out to investigate causes and cures of undergraduate unrest. Spring weather soon furnished fresh data: Last fortnight at the University of Pennsylvania, 1,000 students engaged in a rowbottom.* Result: 100 students jailed, later reprimanded. Last week at Harvard, 1,000 students battled 40 constables.* Result: one sophomore was arrested, appealed a sentence of five days in the house of correction. Casualty: Freshman Samuel Craft Davis Jr., nephew of Governor General Dwight Filley Davis of the Philippines, received lacerations about the head. Last week at Yale, 400 underclassmen fought 80 policemen from behind a street barricade. Result: seven students were fined $25 each, seven admonished. Casualties: six students received thumped heads, six policemen were cut and bruised, one student and one townsman were hospitalized.

* Pennsylvania's traditional rallying cry, "Rowbottom!" derives from a legendary undergraduate who, frequently prevented by intemperance from getting upstairs to bed, would cry loudly for help to his roommate, one Rowbottom. *Had they needed assistance, they might have shouted: "Rhinehart!" Legends: 1) A lonely student named Rhinehart used to attract attention to himself by calling his own name below his window. 2) One John Brice Gordon Rhinehart was frequently shouted for by a friend with a deep bass voice which classmates mimicked.

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