The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-08

rlety. week ago, an auction sale of
books took place at Hanover, the home of
that seat of learning and refinement called
Dartmouth college, which was attended by
a number of the students, that they might
there indulge In their taste for literature
aud display their gentlemanly accomplish
ments and regard for others rights. Here,
on two different days, they INDUCED them
selves TO their hearts content in what the
proprietor mildly terms, "behaviSg in a
Every unbecoming manner"-and which,
according to his description, consisted of
breaking doors, smashing windows and de-
stroyng furniture, enivened occasionally
by personal assaults on himself and his
clerks. These acts were committed by
New England college students, by refined
and educated "young gentlemen and
are such ~ have been considered
merely the harmless ebullitions of
playful fancy. We have come to
look for and not be surprised at their re-
petition And it is because VIC have not
Dtth SUI BlloOu ~ btCt let We nave
passed them by as excellent jokes, that
they are so often repeated, that they are
becoming as thrice told tale, that they
threaten to destroy not only the confidence
of the people in our colleges, but their use
fulness TO the young men who are entrust-
ed, or entrust themselves, TO their tender
mercies.
1t is time these young men received
much needed lesson, and 1t is a cause for
sincere congratuation that Mr. Parker
for that is the name of the proprietor of
the Hanover stOre-possessed the courage
to give these Dartmouth young gentlemen
the lesson. They needed to be made to
understand that college students were still
citizens and amenable to the law. that con-
nection with a colege-even one so old
and respectable" as Dartmouth-did not
make them a superior class of beings, that
the laws of the land we're made as much
for the government, restraint and punish
ment of the refined and gentemanly stu
| dent as for the uneducated boor-and he
has pretty thoroughly impressed ii upon
| the minds of some Of them I'm
mindful of their assumed immunity
from the consequences of their lawless acts
heprocured warrants for their arrest, and at
midnight, accompanied by two sheriffs,
called upon ten of these students and they
were compelled to change their comfortable
beds for the cold inhosptality of com
mon Jail. The next morning they were
brought before magistrate for prelimin-
aly hearing and were required to give bail
for their appearance before the superior
court for trial. College students arrested,
confined in Jail, held to bail, treated like
common criminals Think of 1.-THE
world does move.
1t would appear, however, that Mr..
Parker's work ia not yet finished. The
coach, which conveyed the student prison.
ers from the jail to the depot, was accom-
panied by some four hundred other stu
dents as guard of honor, the prisoners be-
ing greeted with cheers and treated as
martyrs not criminals. When, however,
Mr.. Parker appeared to take passage by
the same train, pandemonium seemed to
have broken loose. He was received with
screeches and derisive cheers, was hustled
about the platform, and finally showed into
the depot and forced into the ticket Office
where he was locked in and forcibly de-
| MT , r..
We trust that he will have the courage to
deal with these IoteIs in the same manner
that he has with their fellows, and that he
will not abate his efforts until college stu
dents learn that laws are enacted to be res
pected and obeyed. The public will await
with some anxiety to learn what course the
faculty of Dartmouth college will pursue
in the premises whether they are men OF
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