Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-20
DINNER SCENE AT HARVARD.
A student and a Negro Waiter Settled a
Quarrel with Natures weapons.

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Cambridge SpeciGfto to TIE Pitts5arg Dispatch.
Harvard students have a Co-operatiye
Dining Association, comprising some 500
or 600 members, who take their meals at
Memorial Hall. Not only students in the
college proper but those Ofthe law school
and the other professional schools of the
University share the privileges of the as
sociation. Last Sunday a law student
named j. III. Atwood, who halls from Aver
junction, Mass, came in to his dinner
rather late. He ordered the negro waiter
TO bring him, among other things, plate
OF rolls. The negro had previously re-
ceiyed similar order from another stu
dent dining at another table, and natural
" attended to his wants first.
ATWOOD, seeing the waiter giving his
IelloW student the preference. flew into
passion, and roughly commanded the
waiter TO take the rolls away from the
other and bring them to him. The waiter
delnurred, saying that the other student
had ordered nrst. Atwood, who is a stout,
muscular fellow, picked up a chair and
threw II at the walters head. The two
hundred or three hundred students who
We're lelsurely dining in the hall, Jumped
to their feet, and there was tremendous
excitement at once. The negro dodced
the chair, and glaring at Atwood with re-
pressed rage, muttered that he would get
even with him yet. Atwood proposed that
they should adjourn to the transept and
have 1t out then and there. The negro
dol1ed his white apron and crowd fol-
lowed the two into the transept, some of
his friends trying TO dissuade Atwood
from his purpose.
The set-to on the marble floor, beneath
the dim religious light pouring through
the stained glass windows and Illuminat-
ing the inscriptions carved on the walls
in honor of the brave sons of Harvard
who met their death while fighting for
their country, was sharp but brief. At
wood is a considerable larger and stOuter
man than his colored opponent, but not
Withstandlng this he went underneath,
and at the end of the first round had to
throw up the sponge. The negro asked
him If he had had enough, and Atwood
admitted that he had. The negro let him
up and went back to put on his apron,
While Atwood pushed his way through
the crowd OF students, which had gath
cred round to see the novel sight of Har-
ward student fighting with negro waiter,
and went off tG his room
Atwood, who is not popular man
among his fellow students, has the reputa-
Tion of being rough, Overbearing sort of
fellow, He is said to have an ungov-
ernahle temper. Since he entered college
hardly a month has passed that he has not
had quarrel with somebody, and owing
to his size and strength he has usually
come Oft victor. The students of the
college, while cOndemning the affair in
the strongest terms, do not hesitate to ex-
press their pleasure at the result of the
unseemly contest. The general opinion
is that man who would so demean him
self is disgrace to the college, and the
sooner his connection with it ends the
better it will be for the fair name of Har-
ward. The next meeting of the faculty
will be held next Monday night, when it
is probable that some action may be taken
in the matter.