The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-11-04

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. stttQss hIttf eings or sssscs; en- stu
ferss were bad tired asfs had
their heads sioI Ice N zen g:
sctEts one III. areyl per u
sons were slI cr e ,ipissesd
Several policemen Il ere ii 5Qred three
5ot tsenl being ,liaconssci III
1.-THE street after aesttii ght vas over Il
AM nE e 81 ir1nrekd sssEa3
segcrs pers cred rs
front Of the inst tute btt Hiding toSses.
Sslae stud ents celebra ton, al One OF
zhems g. s. Higgins :oung llIos
lives in North Cambridge was al rack
Led by a policeman on the side of the
street opposite the building and had
his head so -
he had to be#takeR to the Refief Ios.
pita for treatment
| Tie Teen boys and Harry ard stu.
dents had rival Republican parades
through Boston streets and.tl1e police
had been stationed about the Teen
nology buildings 70 prevent trouble
between the students Of The. two col.
leges. The fechs boys had beer
threatening trouble for some days. be
lfeving. it is said, hat a fight. between
students of the two sinstit ions would
break off the negotiations which II IS
intended slIaIl end III Harvard and
Tech becoming united.
The Harvard students were warned
by Major Henry IN ggin son bel
fore they left Cambridge for Boston
MOTTO engage in a fight with the
Tech students If the latter: bod at
tempted to start one, and all evening
the two parades. In which there were
twothousand students, did not come
together.
Through the business section oil
Boston the Tech IS tudents marclletl
behind Harvard separated by squad F
of mounted policemen, and the Har2
ward boys had passed the Tech, /
buildings and were on their way to- I
Cambridge when the fight between the /
police and the Tech students be-
gan.
After the Harvard men had passed. 1
the Tech building the Students of /
that institution, cheering and waving.
torches, rushed up the steps OF thesE
Rogers building, one of the 1T ech,..l
group, to continue their clebration.
= The police say they had orders toll
keep these steps clear. and when thea
students refused to leave them the
100 policemen with drawn clubs.s
made charge.
Then the lighting became furious.
The students tried to push the police
back into the building The polfceGfs
backinto thesb building The police club
bed%rIg1t and left and the stud ents
retaliated with their torches.
Many of the police7Were burned byEtE
the torches and angered blythe pain
Of their burns they fought Ike mast
MACS knocking tile students down and +.
trampfngs on them. The mounted po-
lice drove their horses at full tilt onto
the resisting young fellows and pros
trate forms lay On the sidewalk as n
on battlefield. &
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Near a drug store at the corner of
Boyleston and Clarendon streets one
Of the police horses fell throwing It's
the street. Near the horse r
fell student The horse, in strug
Cling tots feet. backed upon the stu
lent and he lay here unconscious I'M
til an ambulance took film 70 hos
oital&The student was Harold Raney,s
0S. living IN Quincy Hall E
a crowd of thousands stood near b
~, on the steps of the " M. G. A.,
N the steps of the Hotel Brunswick Ii
ind on the sidewalks for a block In
,ither direction. People yelled "a
Shame - and denounced the meth
IDS Of the police but the police hit Ii
again and again by q lying torches, did
lot feel pleasantly disposed toward u